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• The Wedding People

  a Novel

  Espach, Alison, 1984-

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  Phoebe, a brokenhearted English professor, checks into a spectacular hotel in Newport, R.I., prepared to end her life in a king-size bed with an ocean view. Instead, she becomes embroiled with Lila, a bride who has reserved the hotel for her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cassandra at the Wedding

  Baker, Dorothy, 1907-1968

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  If Esther Greenwood, the narrator of “The Bell Jar,” had an identical twin sister who was getting married, her account might sound a lot like this witty, devastating novel. Cassandra, a depressed queer graduate student, arrives at her family’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Happy Couple

  a Novel

  Dolan, Naoise, 1992-

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  This clever comic novel about a queer Irish couple stumbling toward the altar despite their millennial cynicism sneaks in earnest reflections on love and commitment. Dolan lets a chorus of wedding party members narrate, including the bride (a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Olga Dies Dreaming

  Gonzalez, Xochitl, 1977-

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  Olga, a wedding planner for the New York elite, will make you appreciate the labor that goes into an extravagant event. She and her Puerto Rican family members have shared values, but have made very different choices about how to live them out. Olga…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seating Arrangements

  Shipstead, Maggie

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  Warning: This novel is N.S.F.W. (not safe for WASPs, at least those who prefer not to be skewered). Winn Van Meter, the harrumphing patriarch of a Connecticut family, is hosting the island nuptials of his eldest daughter, a woman so patrician her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Member of the Wedding

  McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967

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  If you’ve ever felt a thrill of intimidation on a loved one’s wedding day, as if that person had transformed into a celebrity, you will connect with this deeply felt novel narrated by a 12-year-old girl on the eve of her brother’s wedding. Frankie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So Happy for You

  a Novel

  Laskey, Celia,

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  If you’ve paid your dues in a wedding party, you may be familiar with the so-called bridesmaid-to-never-speaking-again pipeline, which Laskey satirizes in this mordant thriller. Robin, a lecture-prone wedding skeptic, lives in a near future where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shopaholic Ties the Knot

  A Novel

  Kinsella Sophie

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  You do not need to be a devotee of Kinsella’s Shopaholic series to appreciate this story of a bride whose inability to settle on a vision for her “perfect day” causes chaos across multiple continents. The newly engaged Becky Bloomwood is so allergic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dele Weds Destiny

  a Novel

  Obaro, Tomi, 1990-

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  The mother (and aunties) of the bride gets the spotlight in this decades-spanning novel that revolves around a wedding weekend in Lagos, Nigeria, where Funmi, Enitan and Zainab reunite to watch Funmi’s daughter tie the knot. These lifelong best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lies and Weddings

  a Novel

  Kwan, Kevin,

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  Eden is an outsider in the upper echelons of the English elite, a doctor’s daughter raised alongside the aristocratic Chinese British siblings Augusta, Beatrice and Rufus, her handsome best friend. Rufus’s mother, Lady Arabella, is determined to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wedding Date

  Guillory, Jasmine,

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  You know that thing where you meet an attractive stranger while stuck in an elevator, and then he asks you to do him a big favor and pose as his new girlfriend at his ex’s wedding, and you do it on a lark but your attraction to him slowly builds…Read moreRead more of this annotation