A deliciously absorbing social comedy, set on an exclusive island off Cape Cod, that tracks a catastrophic three-day wedding weekend with an irresistible mix of wit and tenderness - a pitch-perfect debut (and a wicked pleasure) from a hugely talented young writer. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Maggie Shipstead was recently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has studied with Tobias Wolff and Marilynne Robinson. A deliciously absorbing social comedy, set on an exclusive island off Cape Cod, that tracks a catastrophic three-day wedding weekend with an irresistible mix of wit and tenderness - a pitch-perfect debut (and a wicked pleasure) from a hugely talented young writer. A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Maggie Shipstead was recently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has studied with Tobias Wolff and Marilynne Robinson.
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