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Central Book Club

Central Book Club In-Person

Central Book Club meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm.

For a list of all our books for the year, visit this page.

For the virtual/online branch-off of this book club, which meets the third Tuesday of every other month, visit our separate registration page.


This month we are reading The Wedding People by Alison Espach. The book is available to check out from the library here.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us 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 dreamt of coming for years―she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe―which makes it that much more surprising when the women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns uproariously, absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is a look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined―and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

View the discussion questions ahead of time here.

Date:
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
B Room
Audience:
  Adults     Public  
Categories:
  Library Event  

Registration is required. There are 30 seats available.