Come join us on the patio at Glou for an event with two beloved local authors, Alison Espach and Rebekah Bergman! Alison will be reading from her new book The Wedding People (out 7/30 via Henry Holt & Company), followed by a craft conversation with Rebekah and an audience Q&A session. This event is free and open to all, with zero-proof beverage options available and adored :-)
ABOUT THE WEDDING PEOPLE
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew.
It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamt of coming for years―she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe―which makes it that much more surprising when the women can’t stop confiding in each other.
In turns uproariously, absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is a look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined―and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
ABOUT ALISON ESPACH
Alison Espach is the author of the novels The Wedding People, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, an Indie Next Pick and Amazon Editors’ Pick for 2022, and The Adults, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Barnes and Noble Discover pick. Her series In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People is an Audible Original. She has written for McSweeney’s, Vogue, Outside Magazine, Joyland and other places. She teaches creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.
ABOUT REBEKAH BERGMAN
Rebekah Bergman is a writer living in Rhode Island. Her debut novel The Museum of Human History (Tin House, 2023) was long-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize and received the special citation from the Philip K. Dick Award. It was named a best debut of the year by Kirkus and Booklist. Her short stories have been published in Tin House Online, Joyland, The Rumpus, and other journals. She is a contributing editor of NOON.
Rebekah is at work on a second book, for which she has received support from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and recognition from the Granum Foundation.