It\'s for the same audience that flocked to The Nest, Where\'d You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of, Crazy Rich Asians.
To top it off, she\'s infuriatingly kind and decent.
As this estranged clan gathers together, and Eloise\'s walk down the aisle approaches, Grant Ginder brings to vivid, hilarious life the power of family, and the complicated ways we Hate the ones we love the most in the most bitingly funny, slyly witty and surprisingly tender novel you\'ll read this year..
John and a post-college life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund.
The product of Donna\'s first marriage to a dashing Frenchman, Eloise has spent her school years at the best private boarding schools, her winter holidays in St.
Perfect, gorgeous, cultured Eloise.
And then there\'s Eloise.
Her brother Paul lives in Philadelphia with his older, handsomer, tenured track professor boyfriend who\'s recently been saying things like monogamy is an oppressive heteronormative construct, while eyeing undergrads.
Alice is in her thirties, single, smart, beautiful, stuck in a dead-end job where she is mired in a rather predictable, though enjoyable, affair with her married boss.
Donna, the clan\'s mother, is now a widow living in the Chicago suburbs with a penchant for the occasional joint and more than one glass of wine with her best friend while watching House Hunters International.
The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family.
They couldn\'t Hate it more.
They\'ll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.
Paul and Alice\'s half-sister Eloise is getting married In London There will be fancy hotels, dinners at it restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. -- Bloomberg BusinessweekRelationships are awful.
Like all the best beach reads, it eats the rich like so many frozen grapes. -- Elin Hilderbrand Entertainment Weekly\'s Summer Must-ReadA Publishers Weekly BEST SUMMER BOOKS, 2017New York Post Best Books of Summer Redbook\'s 10 Books You Have To Read This SummerThe summer\'s most compelling fictional exploration of affluence and envy. -- Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich AsiansSinfully good.
It\'s for the same audience that flocked to The Nest, Where\'d You Go, Bernadette? or dare I say a little book you might be a fan of, Crazy Rich Asians
