All Are Welcome
A Novel
Published on 1. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-1-5420-2988-9 (ISBN)
Description
A darkly funny novel from a fresh new voice in fiction about brides, lovers, friends, and family, and all the secrets that come with them.
Tiny McAllister never thought she'd get married. Not because she didn't want to, but because she didn't think girls from Connecticut married other girls. Yet here she is with Caroline, the love of her life, at their destination wedding on the Bermuda coast. In attendance-their respective families and a few choice friends. The conflict-phobic Tiny hopes for a beautiful weekend with her bride-to-be. But as the weekend unfolds, it starts to feel like there's a skeleton in every closet of the resort.
From Tiny's family members, who find the world is changing at an uncomfortable speed, to Caroline's parents, who are engaged in conspiratorial whispers, to their friends, who packed secrets of their own-nobody seems entirely forthcoming. Not to mention the conspicuous no-show and a tempting visit from the past. What the celebration really needs now is a monsoon to help stir up all the long-held secrets, simmering discontent, and hidden agendas.
All Tiny wanted was to get married, but if she can make it through this squall of a wedding, she might just leave with more than a wife.
Tiny McAllister never thought she'd get married. Not because she didn't want to, but because she didn't think girls from Connecticut married other girls. Yet here she is with Caroline, the love of her life, at their destination wedding on the Bermuda coast. In attendance-their respective families and a few choice friends. The conflict-phobic Tiny hopes for a beautiful weekend with her bride-to-be. But as the weekend unfolds, it starts to feel like there's a skeleton in every closet of the resort.
From Tiny's family members, who find the world is changing at an uncomfortable speed, to Caroline's parents, who are engaged in conspiratorial whispers, to their friends, who packed secrets of their own-nobody seems entirely forthcoming. Not to mention the conspicuous no-show and a tempting visit from the past. What the celebration really needs now is a monsoon to help stir up all the long-held secrets, simmering discontent, and hidden agendas.
All Tiny wanted was to get married, but if she can make it through this squall of a wedding, she might just leave with more than a wife.
Reviews / Votes
"There's also Liz Parker's All Are Welcome, a rom-com misadventure of a bride getting ready to marry the woman of her dreams and the familial secrets and drama that come with it." -Entertainment Tonight"...very fresh, real and hysterically funny...There aren't nearly enough lesbian romantic comedies meant to be read on the beach." -ED by Ellen
"A tender, funny, wise debut novel in which a couple of women embark with their families to their destination wedding in Bermuda, only to watch in horror as their best-laid plans threaten to turn into disaster." -Oprah Daily
"Parker writes with breezy, biting wit, perfectly skewering a demographic that keeps up appearances at all costs." -Booklist
"A dramatic and darkly funny dose of WASP culture. Liz Parker takes on dysfunctional families, destination weddings, and the fact that sometimes the most difficult person to accept is yourself." -Laura Hankin, author of Happy & You Know It
"In her buoyant, sharply observed, and painfully hilarious debut novel, All Are Welcome, Liz Parker tells the big story of a small lesbian wedding. Over a meticulously planned weekend at a sunstruck Bermuda beach club, the hard-packed, jovial WASP surfaces of two seemingly similar Connecticut families come loose to expose long-buried secrets, uncomfortable truths, and a monsoon of dysfunction. By the time the clouds part, Parker has illustrated with blistering wisdom how, for many of us, finding happiness-alone or with another-begins with first seeing who we've been in, and to, our families, and then deciding who it is we will be." -Bill Clegg, author of The End of the Day
"In All Are Welcome, Liz Parker vividly describes a young couple on the brink of their future who must also face their past when their destination beach wedding goes somewhat awry. Over the course of a tumultuous, rum-punch-fueled weekend, secrets are revealed and love is tested. Parker's keen eye for detail and sense of humor had me both laughing and tearing up, and her sharp plot twists kept me guessing until the last page. With equal parts heart, drama, comedy, and emotion, All Are Welcome is a classic destination-wedding story turned on its head for a discernible modern reader." -Julia Spiro, author of Someone Else's Secret
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5420-2988-9 (9781542029889)
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Person
Liz Parker is a literary agent at Verve Talent & Literary. She has written for the New York Times's Modern Love column, and she lives in Los Angeles with her wife, Sarah, and their two dogs.