Download Seating Arrangements AudioBook Free
Maggie Shipstead's stunning debut book, Seating Preparations is an irresistible public satire that is also an memorable yoga on the persistence of trust, the yearning for connection, and the promises of long lasting love. Winn Truck Meter is at risk of his family's retreat on the pristine New Britain island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the matrimony of his little girl Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Winn's wife, Biddy, has designed the marriage with military detail, but agreements are sideswept by the storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne's sister, Livia, who has had her heart busted by Teddy Fenn, the boy of her father's oldest competitor, is an keen target for the seductive wiles of Greyson's best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal obligations, is suffering from his long-standing crush on Daphne's beguiling bridesmaid Agatha; and the groom and bride find themselves presiding over the spectacle of misplaced desire, marital infidelity, and monumental lack of beliefs in the rituals of American life. Hilarious, keenly sensible, and commandingly well written, Shipstead's deceptively frothy first book is a piercing rumination on desire, love and its commitments, and the problems of leading an inauthentic life, heralding the debut of an exciting new literary speech.
