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Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.
Paul and Aliceâs half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at âitâ restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins.
They couldnât hate it more.
The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Donna, the clanâs mother, is now a widow living in the Chicago suburbs with a penchant for the occasional joint and more than one glass of wine with her best friend while watching House Hunters International. Alice is in her thirties, single, smart, beautiful, stuck in a dead-end job where she is mired in a rather predictable, though enjoyable, affair with her married boss. Her brother Paul lives in Philadelphia with his older, handsomer, tenured track professor boyfriend whoâs recently been saying things like âmonogamy is an oppressive heteronormative construct,â while eyeing undergrads. And then thereâs Eloise. Perfect, gorgeous, cultured Eloise. The product of Donnaâs first marriage to a dashing Frenchman, Eloise has spent her school years at the best private boarding schools, her winter holidays in St. John and a post-college life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund. To top it off, sheâs infuriatingly kind and decent.
As this estranged clan gathers together, and Eloise's walk down the aisle approaches, Grant Ginder brings to vivid, hilarious life the power of family, and the complicated ways we hate the ones we love the most in the most bitingly funny, slyly witty and surprisingly tender novel youâll read this year.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- General
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Author : Ginder, Grant
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2018-06-05
Number Of Pages : 334
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1250095220
ISBN-13 : 9781250095220
Item weight : 0.63 lb
Dimensions : 1.22 in x 5.35 in x 8.23 in
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