The story opens with half-sister Alice's off-course life in Los Angeles, detailing how the affair with her married boss started via instant messaging and how it ended because of ill-timed Facebook posts. Still, Ginder creates a detailed, immersive environment that brings some entertainment. The closest one is probably the bride, Eloise, and she's not anyone I'd want on my guest list.
For me, there wasn't one person to call the protagonist there wasn't someone to root for. You can’t even, with her, can you?Īs this dysfunctional clan gathers together, and Eloise's walk down the aisle approaches, Grant Ginder brings to vivid, hilarious life the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, and the complicated ways we hate the ones we love the most in this bitingly funny, slyly witty and surprisingly tender novel.This story is one chapter of family dysfunction after another, and that makes for a cast of characters that really isn't very likable. John and a post-college life cushioned by a fat, endless trust fund.
The product of Donna’s first marriage to the dashing European playboy of the Western World Henrique, Eloise has spent her school years at the best private boarding schools, her winter holidays in St. Paul works for a famous “immersive” psychologist – sadistically forcing people to confront their own fears day in and day out. Her brother Paul lives in Philadelphia with his older, handsomer, tenured track Penn professor boyfriend who’s recently been saying things like “monogamy is an oppressive heteronormative construct,” while eyeing his lacrosse bro undergrads. She might just like her klonopin prescription a bit too much. 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 girlfriend while watching House Hunters International. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a family. 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.
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