The Wedding People by Alison EspachMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Wedding People is a delicious lavender macaron of a book. In the wrong hands, this kind of plot--recent divorcée Phoebe checks into a lavish hotel to end her life, only to find herself flung into the middle of a strangers' wedding--often tastes soapy. But Espach knows just how much sugar and just how much sour to mix in, making something that, somehow, is both airy and substantial. There are drunken in-laws and budding romances, yes, but also deep allusions to Virginia Woolf and frank discussions of how wounded people heal through one another. Even at their wackiest, the characters never feel like caricatures. The Wedding People is pretty much everything one could ask for in a book: entertaining and illuminating in equal measures.
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