"The summer’s most compelling fictional exploration of affluence and envy. Redbook's 10 Books You Have To Read This Summer Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich AsiansĪ Publishers Weekly BEST SUMMER BOOKS, 2017 Otherwise, it has potential and was 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." Getting to that point though, was boring and took too damn long. The brother ended up being there and gave the brotherly support and care that his half-sister, Eloise, needed.
Second point that I enjoyed was in the end. However, I could easily understand the one sister trying to support her half-sibling despite any differences. I could not get attached to the characters. Obviously a lot of family issues, hatred, and anger presented here. The brother is gay apparently and resents his half-sibling. I have not had the chance to meet this spoiled rich half-sister until much later on in the book. The rich sister who is spoiled and has four-thousand-and-five-hundred dollars spent on just the wedding invitations. He feels anger and resentment towards her and her father. The beginning opened up with two siblings fighting over making sure they both were there for their half-sister’s wedding. The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Grinder is the slowest plot I have read. To top it off, she’s infuriatingly kind and decent.Īs 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. 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. 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’ll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.
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