author results for Espach, Alison

The Wedding People

Espach, Alison — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Mistaken for a wedding guest while staying at the grand Cornwall Inn, Phoebe Stone, at rock bottom, is determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself, and unexpectedly becomes brides confidant and through her, meets a cast of surprising characters who help her start anew.

The Wedding People

Espach, Alison — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The runaway New York Times bestselling Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick, with more than 1.5 million copies sold, about an unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Time, Chicago Tribune, Elle, Real Simple, and Glamour
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 dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

No Estás En La Lista

Espach, Alison — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Un día precioso en Newport, Rhode Island, Phoebe Stone llega sola al majestuoso hotel Cornwall Inn, lleva puesto su vestido verde esmeralda, sus tacones dorados y no trae consigo ningún equipaje. Todos en el vestíbulo piensan inmediatamente que es una invitada más a la boda, pero en realidad es la única huésped que no está allí para ese evento. Phoebe ha ido al hotel porque durante años soñó con compartir ese viaje con su marido, pero ahora está sola, tocando fondo y decidida a darse un último homenaje por todo lo alto. Mientras tanto, la novia ha previsto cada detalle y cada posible desastre que pudiera depararle este fin de semana, excepto una cosa: Phoebe y el plan de Phoebe. Sin embargo, contra todo pronóstico, las dos mujeres se ven dispuestas a compartir sus secretos más íntimos desde el mismo instante en que se conocen. Con momentos que van desde lo absurdamente cómico hasta lo desgarradoramente tierno, No estás en la lista de Alison Espach es una mirada matizada y conmovedora sobre los caminos sinuosos que podemos tomar hacia lugares que nunca imaginamos y sobre los encuentros fortuitos que a veces son necesarios para desviarnos.

No Estás En La Lista

Espach, Alison — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Es un día precioso en Newport, Rhode Island. Phoebe Stone llega sola al majestuoso Cornwall Inn con un vestido verde, tacones dorados y sin ningún equipaje. Todos en el vestíbulo piensan que es una invitada más a la boda, pero en realidad es la única huésped que no está allí para ese gran evento. Ha ido al hotel porque llevaba años soñando con ese viaje y esperaba compartirlo con su marido, pero ahora está sola, tocando fondo y decidida a darse el último lujo de su decadente vida. Mientras tanto, la novia ha previsto cada detalle y cada posible desastre que pudiera depararle este fin de semana, excepto una cosa: Phoebe y su plan. Sin embargo, contra todo pronóstico, las dos mujeres se ven dispuestas a compartir sus secretos más íntimos desde el mismo instante en que se conocen. Con momentos que van desde lo absurdamente cómico hasta lo desgarradoramente tierno, No estás en la lista de Alison Espach es, en última instancia, una mirada matizada y conmovedora sobre los caminos sinuosos que podemos tomar hacia lugares que nunca imaginamos y sobre los encuentros azarosos que a veces son necesarios para reconducir nuestra vida.

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

Espach, Alison — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

From Alison Espach, author of the New York Times Editor's Choice novel The Adults, comes a dazzlingly unconventional love story for listeners of Ask Again, Yes and Tell the Wolves I'm Home The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one, full of family trips to the beach and long afternoons at the local pool with her older sister, Kathy, which they mostly use as an excuse to ogle Billy Barnes, who works the concession stand there. A rising senior and local basketball star, Billy has been an unending source of intrigue for both girls since he jumped off the school roof in fifth grade, and their fascination with him is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. By summer's end, Billy and Kathy are an item - an unthinkable stroke of luck that ends in an even more unthinkable tragedy. Set over the course of 15 years, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is narrated by Sally as she addresses Kathy before, during, and after Kathy's death. We watch as Kathy's absence creates a gaping hole that only Billy - now firmly off limits to Sally - understands and might possibly begin to fill. Charting years of their shared history and missed connections, Notes is both a breathtaking love story between two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other, and a wry, sharply observant coming-of-age story that looks at the ways the people we love the most continue to shape our lives long after they're gone. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

The Wedding People

Espach, Alison — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"As narrator, the terrific Laser, an actress and puppeteer, only enhances the swoon-worthy quirks and romance." —Vulture
A Today show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick, A Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Winner, and long-listed in many Best of the Year 2024 picks!
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her 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 dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.
In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

The Adults

Espach, Alison — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

In her ruefully funny and wickedly perceptive debut novel, Alison Espach deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent suburban universe is Emily Vidal, a smart and snarky teenager, who gets involved in a suspect relationship with one of the adults after witnessing a suicide in her neighborhood. Among the cast of unforgettable characters is Emily's father, whose fiftieth birthday party has the adults descending upon the Vidal's patio; her mother, who has orchestrated the elaborate party even though she and her husband are getting a divorce; and an assortment of eccentric neighbors, high school teachers, and teenagers who teem with anxiety and sexuality and an unbridled desire to be noticed, and ultimately loved.