“Espach’s wit and warmth deliver a gratifying story about how people who have given up might find a reason to start caring again.”

“Deeply satisfying. . . . A story of what it means to lift oneself out of one life and into another through acts of individual will and fellowship with others. . . . Espach is now three for three on delivering funny, emotionally moving explorations of the difficulties people have in being themselves.”

“Deceptively complex...Espach’s story of a life-changing chance encounter is as rewarding as it is unexpected.”

“They say a good actor can read a phone book and still keep an audience spellbound. Alison Espach is that kind of writer. She is a master of taking the seemingly mundane and creating moments that transfix.”

“The Wedding People is so utterly, ringingly true it feels less like fiction than like a field guide to personhood. It’s so funny and romantic that I sometimes laughed out loud and sometimes got actual goosebumps. It’s a perfect novel. I loved it.”