{"id":22660,"date":"2025-04-06T04:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:19:09","slug":"book-17-of-52-the-wedding-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/book-17-of-52-the-wedding-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 17 (of 52) &#8211; The Wedding People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22661\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/theweddingpeople.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22661\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22661\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/theweddingpeople.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/theweddingpeople.jpg 469w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/theweddingpeople-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wedding People &#8211; Alison Espach<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the breakup of her marriage during the COVID lockdown, Phoebe heads to a luxurious New England hotel planning to end her life.\u00a0 When she arrives, all of the other guests are there for a week-long wedding.\u00a0 When she accidentally gets involved with the bride, she decides not to kill herself and instead finds herself pulled into the orbit of the wedding, changing both her outlook on life and theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Winner of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Fiction, Alison Espach&#8217;s <em>The Wedding People<\/em> is my first exposure to her work.\u00a0 It took me a bit to get pulled in, but, once I was, it was a great ride.\u00a0 I can relate somewhat to Phoebe&#8217;s predicament, feeling the life has passed you by and hoping to find a way to change your approach to it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll be diving into her back catalog, but this was an entertaining read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the breakup of her marriage during the COVID lockdown, Phoebe heads to a luxurious New England hotel planning to end her life.\u00a0 When she arrives, all of the other guests are there for a week-long wedding.\u00a0 When she accidentally gets involved with the bride, she decides not to kill herself and instead finds herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11965,9295,11966],"class_list":["post-22660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-alison-espach","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-the-wedding-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22668,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions\/22668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}