Unexpected Events – Alison Espach and Marcy Dermansky
Alison Espach’s New York Times bestselling book The Wedding People is a
propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest at a Newport hotel and the surprising people who help her start her life anew. Marcy Dermansky’s Hot Air is a joyfully unhinged story of money, marriage, sex, and revenge that unspools when a billionaire crashes his hot-air balloon into the middle of a post-pandemic first date.
Alison Espach is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wedding
People, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She is a professor of creative writing at Providence College in Rhode Island.
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the previous novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie, and Twins. She lives in New Jersey with her daughter.
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