Zibby's Book Club pick & a Read With Jenna pick! Alison Espach, THE WEDDING PEOPLE
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with author Alison Espach about her absurdly funny and devastatingly tender new novel, THE WEDDING PEOPLE—a Zibby’s Book Club, Read With Jenna, and B&N Book Club pick! Alison delves into the book’s unique premise: Phoebe, a divorced English professor, goes to a luxury hotel to end her life—but then she meets the bride getting married there that weekend, and they form an unlikely friendship. Alison delves into the characters, the inspiration behind the story, and her use of humor to explore dark themes. She also reveals how her own experiences with grief and loss have influenced her writing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zivie Readers. |
| 0:31.3 | Alison S. Fetch is the author of The Wedding People, a novel, which is my Zippy's book club |
| 0:36.6 | pick. I really, really, really love this book. I know you will too. I'm excited for you to hear our episode and more excited for you to go and read the book, which sounds dark, but is incredibly funny and just exceptionally well-written. I hope you all enjoy it, and I hope if you're not part of Zivis's book club that you sign up for it, you can just |
| 0:54.3 | Google it or go to Zivimedia.com and you'll find Zivis Book Club. We would love to have you. |
| 1:01.2 | Allison S. Patch is the author of the novels The Adults, a New York Times editor's choice, |
| 1:05.7 | and a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and notes on your sudden disappearance, which was named |
| 1:10.0 | a best book of 2022 by the |
| 1:11.8 | Chicago Tribune and NPR. Her short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Vogue, |
| 1:17.3 | Outside, Joyland, and other places. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Providence |
| 1:22.2 | College in Rhode Island. Welcome, Allison. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have |
| 1:26.9 | time to read books to discuss the wedding feeble. So exciting. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. It's really funny to actually be on this podcast because I've been listening to it sort of nonstop for the past few days while making this brick path in my backyard. I often listen to podcasts or audiobooks. I was like, |
| 1:44.9 | you know what I'll listen to Zippy's podcast? And you have made a very tedious process |
| 1:49.5 | actually pretty enjoyable. Like listening to the authors. I mean, it's truly so tedious. |
| 1:57.0 | This I don't, for any like ambitious D.Y. Iers out there, you know, this is not for, this is like a job |
| 2:03.8 | left for the pros, I'd say. I wasn't going to try it. Yeah, no, definitely. I bet it happened in 2020. |
| 2:10.4 | And so I'm still sorting through like the, like, which tasks are for me and like which tasks are for the |
| 2:16.4 | pros. And I definitely, definitely learned my lesson on this one. |
| 2:19.6 | My tasks for me list is very, very short. |
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