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Title: The People We Hate at the Wedding
Author: Grant Ginder
Narrator: Dan Bittner, Khristine Hvam
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-17
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 142 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
This program includes a bonus interview with the author and his editor.
Relationships are awful. 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. They couldn't hate it more.
The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. 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. Alice is in her 30s, single, smart, beautiful, and stuck in a dead-end job where she is mired in a rather predictable, though enjoyable, affair with her married boss. 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. And then there's Eloise. Perfect, gorgeous, cultured Eloise. 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. John, and a postcollege life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund. 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 audiobook you'll listen to this year.
Critic Reviews:
"Family dysfunction at its best. This novel is addicting and entertaining and I couldn't put it down!" (Jennifer Close, New York Times best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses and The Hopefuls)
Members Reviews:
It had potential.
With so much family strife, you would have thought there would have been way more drama. It ended up being kind of boring. The narrators weren't great and I lost interest.
Family drama worth reading
Instagram introduced me to this book and author and I'm so glad it did. I was invested in the story from the start and I had to keep listening to find out more. Mr. Ginder did an amazing job of bringing the best out of flawed characters. In the process, I could find bits of myself in each one.
Do yourself a favor and read, or listen, to this book today!!
Performance ruined the audible experience
Longtime listener and big fan of Audible but the narration on this was so bad -- distracting, affected, annoying -- I had to ditch it for the kindle version.
Such a great book
I know that a lot of the reviews express disappointment that the characters aren't likable, it's not a fun little beach read, etc. etc. Whatever. The characters in this book are complicated and real, and the family dynamics are refreshingly raw without being tragic or overwrought. If you want the audiobook version of a Hallmark movie, you won't like this book. I am averse to saccharine, and I loved it.
Funny & warming
This book is so so funny! I loved it; it has just enough serious moments to make the laugh out loud moments just that much more awesome.
