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The Wedding People
Why we recommend it
The Wedding People begins in a dark emotional place and opens into something unexpectedly funny, generous, and hopeful. Its questions about friendship, reinvention, and the lives we think we should be living make it especially rewarding to discuss.
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Book-club questions
Spoiler note: These prompts are best explored after everyone has finished the book.
- What do Phoebe and Lila recognize in each other despite arriving at the hotel with very different plans?
- How does the wedding's carefully staged happiness contrast with the private lives of the people attending it?
- Where did the novel's humor deepen its treatment of loneliness or depression rather than soften it?
- Which unexpected connection most convincingly rerouted a character's life?
- What does the ending suggest about beginning again without having every part of a new life figured out?