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We Are Gathered Here Today
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Expected 16 Jun 26The Wedding People meets The Celebrants in this hilarious and profound novel about a recently engaged gay man second guessing marriage, and his cousin’s chaotic Texas wedding weekend with old friends and unexpected strangers that will help guide him to the truth, from the beloved author of The Old Place.
At 36, Finlay Hightower has attended countless incredible, cringe-worthy, and disastrous wedding celebrations with his best friends. Their secret to surviving wedding chaos? The Hour of Disrespect—a pact to reserve judgement to one hour after the couple’s Big Day, protecting the wedding glow and leaving only with the good memories.
But this next wedding will test their decade-old tradition in more ways than one. Now, one of their own is getting married—Fin’s beloved cousin, Elaine—at a Wild West-themed venue in the sweltering Texas summer heat that is as meticulously itineraried as it is kitchy. Reserving opinions won’t be easy, and on top of that Fin has a secret that threatens his officiant he’s just gotten engaged to the man of his dreams, and a sense of unease has him questioning if he believes in the institution of marriage at all.
As Fin joins the rambunctious and increasingly unhinged “queer table”, old friendships are tested and new relationships are formed. Will each guest hold back their particular views on love, commitment, and the wedding before Elaine can say “I do”? And if not, could those confessions ultimately give Fin the courage to uncover his truth?
Like any good wedding, We Are Gathered Here Today is funny, heartfelt, and full of surprises. Like any terrible wedding, it’s something you’ll never forget.
At 36, Finlay Hightower has attended countless incredible, cringe-worthy, and disastrous wedding celebrations with his best friends. Their secret to surviving wedding chaos? The Hour of Disrespect—a pact to reserve judgement to one hour after the couple’s Big Day, protecting the wedding glow and leaving only with the good memories.
But this next wedding will test their decade-old tradition in more ways than one. Now, one of their own is getting married—Fin’s beloved cousin, Elaine—at a Wild West-themed venue in the sweltering Texas summer heat that is as meticulously itineraried as it is kitchy. Reserving opinions won’t be easy, and on top of that Fin has a secret that threatens his officiant he’s just gotten engaged to the man of his dreams, and a sense of unease has him questioning if he believes in the institution of marriage at all.
As Fin joins the rambunctious and increasingly unhinged “queer table”, old friendships are tested and new relationships are formed. Will each guest hold back their particular views on love, commitment, and the wedding before Elaine can say “I do”? And if not, could those confessions ultimately give Fin the courage to uncover his truth?
Like any good wedding, We Are Gathered Here Today is funny, heartfelt, and full of surprises. Like any terrible wedding, it’s something you’ll never forget.
320 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication June 16, 2026
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April 2, 2026
I really wanted to like this, especially because I loved the author's previous book, Four Squares. Unfortunately, the writing and characterization were so weak that I lost interest about 2/3 of the way through, and I only finished the book out of a sense of duty. I can't recommend this! You should go read Four Squares instead.
This is supposed to be a character-driven drama about a queer group of friends reuniting for a wedding in the Hill Country. The issue is the writing perspective. Most of the book is third-person omniscient and focused on the protagonist, Fin, but the author frequently jumps over to other characters' perspectives, sometimes in the same paragraph. That means you're constantly told exactly how the characters are thinking or feeling, so there's no room for nuance or true conflict. Even worse, there are a few crucial scenes where only Fin's perspective is provided. Removing the other perspectives at these stages is obviously only done to drive drama, which I think is a cheat if you constantly switch perspectives otherwise. The writing overall feels choppy, and sometimes characters assert feelings that don't seem to match up to the actual events. The most egregious example is .
The author clearly has something to say about the nature of marriage and how it works (or doesn't) for queer relationships, but that doesn't really come through in the characterizations. The asides get shoehorned in. Basically, none of this worked for me, though I did like that this was set in the Hill Country and that there were many references to Austin landmarks and geography.
There are several references to Covid and its impact on the characters, which makes me think this book may have been written a few years ago and only recently edited for publication.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for sending me a copy!
This is supposed to be a character-driven drama about a queer group of friends reuniting for a wedding in the Hill Country. The issue is the writing perspective. Most of the book is third-person omniscient and focused on the protagonist, Fin, but the author frequently jumps over to other characters' perspectives, sometimes in the same paragraph. That means you're constantly told exactly how the characters are thinking or feeling, so there's no room for nuance or true conflict. Even worse, there are a few crucial scenes where only Fin's perspective is provided. Removing the other perspectives at these stages is obviously only done to drive drama, which I think is a cheat if you constantly switch perspectives otherwise. The writing overall feels choppy, and sometimes characters assert feelings that don't seem to match up to the actual events. The most egregious example is .
The author clearly has something to say about the nature of marriage and how it works (or doesn't) for queer relationships, but that doesn't really come through in the characterizations. The asides get shoehorned in. Basically, none of this worked for me, though I did like that this was set in the Hill Country and that there were many references to Austin landmarks and geography.
There are several references to Covid and its impact on the characters, which makes me think this book may have been written a few years ago and only recently edited for publication.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for sending me a copy!
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
Save the Date, Save the Seating Chart, Save Your Opinions for the Hour of Disrespect
Bobby Finger’s “We Are Gathered Here Today” is a wedding novel that knows the buffet line, the group text, and the emotional support cousin can be just as narratively consequential as the vows.
By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | April 17th, 2026
A solitary figure at blue hour looks out over the staged warmth of the Hideout, where “We Are Gathered Here Today” turns wedding spectacle into a study of distance, longing, and the private life of ceremony.
Weddings are among the last places where adults agree, en masse, to behave as though certainty can be staged. Two people make a choice. Everyone else gets dressed, finds the right chair, holds a drink, and pretends for a few expensive hours that love has resolved itself into something sturdy enough to photograph. Bobby Finger’s “We Are Gathered Here Today” knows how faintly ludicrous that is. It also knows why people keep wanting it anyway. Finger can make a wedding look ridiculous without turning it into an easy target, and that doubleness – cattiness on the surface, actual hurt underneath – gives the novel both its engine and its tenderness. What at first looks like a sharp wedding-weekend comedy turns out to be a book about how adults turn scraps of evidence into entire beliefs about how life works.
Finlay Hightower, thirty-six, lives in Brooklyn, makes dippable-food videos for the internet, and has come back to central Texas for the wedding of his cousin Elaine. “Cousin” is true but not sufficient. Elaine is also one of the people around whom his emotional life still takes shape, along with his best friend Jacque, the third point in a long-running triangle of intimacy, sarcasm, and mutual forensic attention. Fin is newly engaged to his boyfriend, Mark, and telling almost no one. Elaine, meanwhile, is marrying Rupert after years of obvious fit and a surprisingly delayed proposal, and she is doing so at the Hill Country Hideout, a faux-Western venue complete with saloon, chapel, poker table, scavenger hunt, clue cards, room-key codes, and enough cowboy décor to make the first little snarl of critique rise in any decent guest’s throat. The place looks as though it were assembled from three vendor catalogs and dropped onto the Hill Country overnight. For all its catalog rusticity, it still has to absorb real feeling.
The book’s best piece of comic architecture appears before the luggage is fully unpacked. Fin, Elaine, and Jacque have long observed the Hour of Disrespect, a standing pact whereby all wedding complaints must be saved for one post-event stretch of sanctioned bitching. It is a terrific joke. It is also the key to the whole novel. Fin does not simply have feelings; he turns them into a filing system. He delays, quarantines, curates, withholds. The Hour of Disrespect is not just comic etiquette. It is Fin’s private theology of self-protection. His secret engagement, his anti-marriage speechifying, even his understanding of himself all depend on managed release. He does not merely hesitate. He builds procedure around hesitation and then calls the result maturity.
The weekend comes in preplanned blows: karaoke, lawn games, scavenger hunt, tubing trip, bonfire, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception. Finger is very good at making such sequences do more than fill pages. Karaoke becomes rehearsal – for embarrassment, longing, and the strange bravery required to be earnest in public. The scavenger hunt, with its fake psychics, faux wranglers, clue cards, and old family photographs, becomes a lesson in how memory gets prettied up, laminated, and sold back to people as heritage. The tubing trip, meant to relax everyone, curdles into soaked public embarrassment: cans fly, secrets spill, police intervene, and dignity drifts downstream in koozies while strangers watch from nearby tubes. The bonfire nearly turns operatic. The children are truly hellish. Hailey, the wedding planner, glides through it all with the eerie calm of someone who could extinguish both a literal fire and an emotional one without scuffing a boot.
The novel stops merely amusing and starts exposing people when the evidence Fin has been treating as settled turns out to be evidence he himself has bent into shape. His parents were quiet, sealed-off people, not visibly demonstrative with each other or with him. Fin has taken that silence and made a whole worldview out of it: marriage is entrapment, permanence is delusion, choosing once means getting stuck forever. He presents this as intelligence. Really it is fear put into a blazer and taught to cite theory. Finger’s sharpest move is not to refute Fin in the abstract, but to show that the evidence itself has been mistranslated – that Fin took reserve for lovelessness, then mistook that misreading for wisdom.
That correction arrives through Johanna, Fin’s great-aunt, old enough to be done with ceremonial niceness and funny enough not to turn wise by becoming solemn. She gives Fin his late mother Martha’s diary, and the novel immediately starts asking more of itself. Up to this point, “We Are Gathered Here Today” is a very good social comedy of itineraries, resentments, old loyalties, overheated politeness, and the emotional traffic jam any wedding produces. The diary shifts the book out of event-comedy and into family revision. Martha, it turns out, had once been engaged to another man before leaving him for James, Fin’s father. The diary reveals not a woman trapped into marriage but a woman choosing it, and choosing it with a fervor Fin never guessed at. This is not backstory added for emotional upholstery. It changes the terms of the novel. Fin has mistaken parental silence for unhappiness, then mistaken that mistake for adulthood.
That is the book’s most underdiscussed strength. It understands how adults turn coping mechanisms into convictions they admire in themselves. Fin does not say, plainly, that he is frightened love will sour and trap him. He says the institution is compromised, permanence is coercive, marriage is structurally suspect. Some of that may be true. The more revealing fact is that truth and evasion can live in the same sentence. Adults do this constantly. They turn a wound into a principle, then congratulate themselves on their realism.
The prose moves like practiced gossip – quick, dry, and able to nick social flesh without making a show of the blade. Finger is especially good on public abrasions: the child question, the seating-chart politics, the passive-aggressive curiosity about how internet work becomes money, the condescension directed at anyone who does not commute to an office, the wedding-guest panic of having to make a life sound coherent to near-strangers in nice clothes. This is nimble prose, socially acute and lightly needling. It is more deft than dazzling, which matters. Its softest passages are the ones in which pain arrives already translated into insight. Now and then distress is expressed a shade too cleanly, as if panic had been given one extra pass in revision before being sent onstage.
Still, the tonal control is impressive. A novel with this much wedding logistics and emotional traffic can die on the dance floor before dessert. Too much sneering, and the entire enterprise becomes a carnival duck. Too much uplift, and everyone starts floating above the page like reception balloons. Finger mostly avoids both traps. The Hideout remains gloriously, insistently fake, which is crucial. Hailey never stops being a little alarming. The fake snake remains fake. The faux saloon remains faux. But when the ceremony arrives, when Fin officiates, when Johanna speaks at the reception in her purple dress and shellacked gray curls, the book does not flinch from feeling. Finger understands that performance is often the only form sincerity can take in public. The vows land. So do the speeches. He earns that.
And the book’s pulse is often strongest a few feet away from its official romance. The friendship between Fin and Jacque has more charge in it than almost anything else here. Their shorthand, their grievances, their instinctive knowledge of one another’s worst habits, the cease-fire quality of any long friendship with enough history to become dangerous – all of this is beautifully caught. Elaine deepens too, especially once the wedding stops being fantasy and starts looking like project management in nice shoes. Her admission that she is ninety percent sure she wants to spend her life with Rupert is one of the novel’s cleanest and best choices. Ninety percent is not romantic failure. It is adulthood speaking in a register fiction too often refuses. Johanna, meanwhile, is the book’s load-bearing beam. She is the one person allowed to say that love is work without sounding as though she bought the phrase engraved on reclaimed wood.
Mark is the clearer limitation. He improves markedly in the final stretch, especially around the diary, where his steadiness stops feeling generic and becomes dramatically useful. But for much of the novel he arrives as solution rather than person. He is sexy, patient, decent, available to be hurt, and eventually firm. All of that matters. It is also thinner than what the book does with Jacque, Elaine, Johanna, and even Todd, whose collapsing marriage becomes a sharper mirror than the central love story. The middle, likewise, worries the same bruise once or twice too often. Fin’s panic about permanence is real, but the novel circles it in only slightly altered language enough times that one begins waiting for the diary to arrive and force the book into deeper water.
When that happens, the novel gets better. The river fiasco is extremely funny once it is no longer happening to you. The diary does more than deepen the book; it hauls it out of the narrower, shinier category the first half threatens to stay inside. Fin’s officiant speech, which could easily have turned soft or self-impressed, comes off. Johanna’s reception speech is better still. She can say, flatly, that love is labor and that people fail each other all the time, then threaten to come back from the dead and haunt her granddaughter’s husband, and somehow make marriage sound lived-in rather than sermonized. By that point Finger has earned the right to let a wedding speech do what wedding speeches almost always promise and almost never manage: enlarge the room.
Part of what makes “We Are Gathered Here Today” inseparable from this overadministered, overinterpreted moment is how cleanly it catches a certain adult habit. It understands people who want ritual while distrusting the institutions ritual blesses. It understands jobs, travel, apps, disclosure politics, guest-room logistics, visibility, aging relatives, and the private math of who gets told first and who gets left out. More than that, it understands the contemporary urge to treat commitment like homework that must be completed before life can begin. That is a real diagnosis. It is also where the novel’s limits show. Finger is more incisive in naming ambivalence than in dramatizing life beyond it. The book is observant, deft, funny, and emotionally plausible. It is also a little more neatly jointed than its opening commotion leads you to expect. Its insights are real, but it sometimes seems content to name a problem rather than force it to the wall. Its comedy pleases consistently, wounds selectively. Its revelations arrive with just enough neatness that you can sometimes feel the novelist’s hand laying them down.
Those limits do not flatten the novel, but they do keep it from becoming stranger, harsher, and better. I’d put “We Are Gathered Here Today” at 83/100, or 4 stars on Goodreads: a smart, likable, emotionally alert novel that does more than its sales pitch suggests, even if it finally works better as a comedy of manners, feeling, and emotional self-protection than as a truly exceptional novel. Finger can make weddings look faintly absurd without draining them of their heat. Better, he understands what weddings give the people who do not have to keep them going. The couple leaves with the labor. The guests leave with something lighter and far less dependable: a little authorized fire of hope, burning for a few hours in rented space, long enough for everyone standing nearby to mistake warmth for permanence.
Early thumbnail studies searching for the right balance between lodge-room stillness and the glowing public theater of the wedding weekend.
The cover-derived palette gathered into twelve working colors, from cobalt dusk to mustard glow, showing how the painting’s atmosphere was built through restraint rather than excess.
The first graphite architecture of the scene, where figure, window, chapel, and empty chairs begin to organize hesitation into composition.
Cool interior blues and the first warm exterior glows stain the page, establishing the emotional split between solitude and celebration.
[image error]
The values deepen and the room begins to hold its own against the ceremony outside, clarifying the painting’s core tension without resolving it completely.
A close study of the figure at the window, where edge, silhouette, and the meeting of cool and warm light carry the image’s private drama.
[image error]
Exploratory border fragments testing how wildflowers, string lights, and ceremonial rhythms might quietly frame the image without prettifying away its unease.
All watercolor illustrations by Demetris Papadimitropoulos.
Bobby Finger’s “We Are Gathered Here Today” is a wedding novel that knows the buffet line, the group text, and the emotional support cousin can be just as narratively consequential as the vows.
By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | April 17th, 2026
A solitary figure at blue hour looks out over the staged warmth of the Hideout, where “We Are Gathered Here Today” turns wedding spectacle into a study of distance, longing, and the private life of ceremony.
Weddings are among the last places where adults agree, en masse, to behave as though certainty can be staged. Two people make a choice. Everyone else gets dressed, finds the right chair, holds a drink, and pretends for a few expensive hours that love has resolved itself into something sturdy enough to photograph. Bobby Finger’s “We Are Gathered Here Today” knows how faintly ludicrous that is. It also knows why people keep wanting it anyway. Finger can make a wedding look ridiculous without turning it into an easy target, and that doubleness – cattiness on the surface, actual hurt underneath – gives the novel both its engine and its tenderness. What at first looks like a sharp wedding-weekend comedy turns out to be a book about how adults turn scraps of evidence into entire beliefs about how life works.
Finlay Hightower, thirty-six, lives in Brooklyn, makes dippable-food videos for the internet, and has come back to central Texas for the wedding of his cousin Elaine. “Cousin” is true but not sufficient. Elaine is also one of the people around whom his emotional life still takes shape, along with his best friend Jacque, the third point in a long-running triangle of intimacy, sarcasm, and mutual forensic attention. Fin is newly engaged to his boyfriend, Mark, and telling almost no one. Elaine, meanwhile, is marrying Rupert after years of obvious fit and a surprisingly delayed proposal, and she is doing so at the Hill Country Hideout, a faux-Western venue complete with saloon, chapel, poker table, scavenger hunt, clue cards, room-key codes, and enough cowboy décor to make the first little snarl of critique rise in any decent guest’s throat. The place looks as though it were assembled from three vendor catalogs and dropped onto the Hill Country overnight. For all its catalog rusticity, it still has to absorb real feeling.
The book’s best piece of comic architecture appears before the luggage is fully unpacked. Fin, Elaine, and Jacque have long observed the Hour of Disrespect, a standing pact whereby all wedding complaints must be saved for one post-event stretch of sanctioned bitching. It is a terrific joke. It is also the key to the whole novel. Fin does not simply have feelings; he turns them into a filing system. He delays, quarantines, curates, withholds. The Hour of Disrespect is not just comic etiquette. It is Fin’s private theology of self-protection. His secret engagement, his anti-marriage speechifying, even his understanding of himself all depend on managed release. He does not merely hesitate. He builds procedure around hesitation and then calls the result maturity.
The weekend comes in preplanned blows: karaoke, lawn games, scavenger hunt, tubing trip, bonfire, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception. Finger is very good at making such sequences do more than fill pages. Karaoke becomes rehearsal – for embarrassment, longing, and the strange bravery required to be earnest in public. The scavenger hunt, with its fake psychics, faux wranglers, clue cards, and old family photographs, becomes a lesson in how memory gets prettied up, laminated, and sold back to people as heritage. The tubing trip, meant to relax everyone, curdles into soaked public embarrassment: cans fly, secrets spill, police intervene, and dignity drifts downstream in koozies while strangers watch from nearby tubes. The bonfire nearly turns operatic. The children are truly hellish. Hailey, the wedding planner, glides through it all with the eerie calm of someone who could extinguish both a literal fire and an emotional one without scuffing a boot.
The novel stops merely amusing and starts exposing people when the evidence Fin has been treating as settled turns out to be evidence he himself has bent into shape. His parents were quiet, sealed-off people, not visibly demonstrative with each other or with him. Fin has taken that silence and made a whole worldview out of it: marriage is entrapment, permanence is delusion, choosing once means getting stuck forever. He presents this as intelligence. Really it is fear put into a blazer and taught to cite theory. Finger’s sharpest move is not to refute Fin in the abstract, but to show that the evidence itself has been mistranslated – that Fin took reserve for lovelessness, then mistook that misreading for wisdom.
That correction arrives through Johanna, Fin’s great-aunt, old enough to be done with ceremonial niceness and funny enough not to turn wise by becoming solemn. She gives Fin his late mother Martha’s diary, and the novel immediately starts asking more of itself. Up to this point, “We Are Gathered Here Today” is a very good social comedy of itineraries, resentments, old loyalties, overheated politeness, and the emotional traffic jam any wedding produces. The diary shifts the book out of event-comedy and into family revision. Martha, it turns out, had once been engaged to another man before leaving him for James, Fin’s father. The diary reveals not a woman trapped into marriage but a woman choosing it, and choosing it with a fervor Fin never guessed at. This is not backstory added for emotional upholstery. It changes the terms of the novel. Fin has mistaken parental silence for unhappiness, then mistaken that mistake for adulthood.
That is the book’s most underdiscussed strength. It understands how adults turn coping mechanisms into convictions they admire in themselves. Fin does not say, plainly, that he is frightened love will sour and trap him. He says the institution is compromised, permanence is coercive, marriage is structurally suspect. Some of that may be true. The more revealing fact is that truth and evasion can live in the same sentence. Adults do this constantly. They turn a wound into a principle, then congratulate themselves on their realism.
The prose moves like practiced gossip – quick, dry, and able to nick social flesh without making a show of the blade. Finger is especially good on public abrasions: the child question, the seating-chart politics, the passive-aggressive curiosity about how internet work becomes money, the condescension directed at anyone who does not commute to an office, the wedding-guest panic of having to make a life sound coherent to near-strangers in nice clothes. This is nimble prose, socially acute and lightly needling. It is more deft than dazzling, which matters. Its softest passages are the ones in which pain arrives already translated into insight. Now and then distress is expressed a shade too cleanly, as if panic had been given one extra pass in revision before being sent onstage.
Still, the tonal control is impressive. A novel with this much wedding logistics and emotional traffic can die on the dance floor before dessert. Too much sneering, and the entire enterprise becomes a carnival duck. Too much uplift, and everyone starts floating above the page like reception balloons. Finger mostly avoids both traps. The Hideout remains gloriously, insistently fake, which is crucial. Hailey never stops being a little alarming. The fake snake remains fake. The faux saloon remains faux. But when the ceremony arrives, when Fin officiates, when Johanna speaks at the reception in her purple dress and shellacked gray curls, the book does not flinch from feeling. Finger understands that performance is often the only form sincerity can take in public. The vows land. So do the speeches. He earns that.
And the book’s pulse is often strongest a few feet away from its official romance. The friendship between Fin and Jacque has more charge in it than almost anything else here. Their shorthand, their grievances, their instinctive knowledge of one another’s worst habits, the cease-fire quality of any long friendship with enough history to become dangerous – all of this is beautifully caught. Elaine deepens too, especially once the wedding stops being fantasy and starts looking like project management in nice shoes. Her admission that she is ninety percent sure she wants to spend her life with Rupert is one of the novel’s cleanest and best choices. Ninety percent is not romantic failure. It is adulthood speaking in a register fiction too often refuses. Johanna, meanwhile, is the book’s load-bearing beam. She is the one person allowed to say that love is work without sounding as though she bought the phrase engraved on reclaimed wood.
Mark is the clearer limitation. He improves markedly in the final stretch, especially around the diary, where his steadiness stops feeling generic and becomes dramatically useful. But for much of the novel he arrives as solution rather than person. He is sexy, patient, decent, available to be hurt, and eventually firm. All of that matters. It is also thinner than what the book does with Jacque, Elaine, Johanna, and even Todd, whose collapsing marriage becomes a sharper mirror than the central love story. The middle, likewise, worries the same bruise once or twice too often. Fin’s panic about permanence is real, but the novel circles it in only slightly altered language enough times that one begins waiting for the diary to arrive and force the book into deeper water.
When that happens, the novel gets better. The river fiasco is extremely funny once it is no longer happening to you. The diary does more than deepen the book; it hauls it out of the narrower, shinier category the first half threatens to stay inside. Fin’s officiant speech, which could easily have turned soft or self-impressed, comes off. Johanna’s reception speech is better still. She can say, flatly, that love is labor and that people fail each other all the time, then threaten to come back from the dead and haunt her granddaughter’s husband, and somehow make marriage sound lived-in rather than sermonized. By that point Finger has earned the right to let a wedding speech do what wedding speeches almost always promise and almost never manage: enlarge the room.
Part of what makes “We Are Gathered Here Today” inseparable from this overadministered, overinterpreted moment is how cleanly it catches a certain adult habit. It understands people who want ritual while distrusting the institutions ritual blesses. It understands jobs, travel, apps, disclosure politics, guest-room logistics, visibility, aging relatives, and the private math of who gets told first and who gets left out. More than that, it understands the contemporary urge to treat commitment like homework that must be completed before life can begin. That is a real diagnosis. It is also where the novel’s limits show. Finger is more incisive in naming ambivalence than in dramatizing life beyond it. The book is observant, deft, funny, and emotionally plausible. It is also a little more neatly jointed than its opening commotion leads you to expect. Its insights are real, but it sometimes seems content to name a problem rather than force it to the wall. Its comedy pleases consistently, wounds selectively. Its revelations arrive with just enough neatness that you can sometimes feel the novelist’s hand laying them down.
Those limits do not flatten the novel, but they do keep it from becoming stranger, harsher, and better. I’d put “We Are Gathered Here Today” at 83/100, or 4 stars on Goodreads: a smart, likable, emotionally alert novel that does more than its sales pitch suggests, even if it finally works better as a comedy of manners, feeling, and emotional self-protection than as a truly exceptional novel. Finger can make weddings look faintly absurd without draining them of their heat. Better, he understands what weddings give the people who do not have to keep them going. The couple leaves with the labor. The guests leave with something lighter and far less dependable: a little authorized fire of hope, burning for a few hours in rented space, long enough for everyone standing nearby to mistake warmth for permanence.
Early thumbnail studies searching for the right balance between lodge-room stillness and the glowing public theater of the wedding weekend.
The cover-derived palette gathered into twelve working colors, from cobalt dusk to mustard glow, showing how the painting’s atmosphere was built through restraint rather than excess.
The first graphite architecture of the scene, where figure, window, chapel, and empty chairs begin to organize hesitation into composition.
Cool interior blues and the first warm exterior glows stain the page, establishing the emotional split between solitude and celebration.
[image error]
The values deepen and the room begins to hold its own against the ceremony outside, clarifying the painting’s core tension without resolving it completely.
A close study of the figure at the window, where edge, silhouette, and the meeting of cool and warm light carry the image’s private drama.
[image error]
Exploratory border fragments testing how wildflowers, string lights, and ceremonial rhythms might quietly frame the image without prettifying away its unease.
All watercolor illustrations by Demetris Papadimitropoulos.
March 21, 2026
I was gifted this ARC by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.
This was my first Bobby Finger read, and I went in not knowing what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised. Liking this book crept up on me with the first few chapters. Coincidently, the name Elaine aside, this really reminded me of 'Seinfeld' for the millennial generation if there were actually out and queer characters involved. It was very much a book about "nothing". People in their thirties going away for a wedding weekend. This originally had me asking: so, why do we care? What makes this wedding/event/weekend special?
I was worried at first that Fin would be all woe is me/whiny while considering: do I want to get married? do I love this person? do I believe in the concept of marriage? But as we get to know Fin, we understand that it's a lot deeper than that and it's more--will taking the next step change everything that's been good about the life and the person who I love or will it make things even better and being okay with the idea of not knowing and taking it one day at a time.
I liked that the book jumped around to all of the friends in the group, but it was a bid odd, because you are prepared to be in Fin's point of view and then suddenly it's jumping to third person everyone, but somehow the narrator is a bit omniscient and knows how everyone is thinking internally. I wish we got the variety of everyone, but were left to wonder about the accuracy of the internal monologue and the behind the scenes, or we got an in-depth first person POV for Fin. At the least, I think a character name under each chapter would be helpful as it takes a few lines to try and realize whose storyline you are following for the moment and by the time you figure it out, you've jumped to the next character in line.
This is not an I-can't-put-this-book-down page turner, but I don't think it's meant to be. It's a check in with yourself and your friends as you shift from college and graduate school friends into the real world and are left wondering now what and how do we do this? How do we make these big decisions? How do we do the little things like making friends as an adult or maintaining old friendships when everyone is scattered all over and doesn't have college in common anymore? It's almost like a shared diary of a bunch of thirty somethings who think no one else feels the way they feel when they actually are all very much on the same page.
This was my first Bobby Finger read, and I went in not knowing what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised. Liking this book crept up on me with the first few chapters. Coincidently, the name Elaine aside, this really reminded me of 'Seinfeld' for the millennial generation if there were actually out and queer characters involved. It was very much a book about "nothing". People in their thirties going away for a wedding weekend. This originally had me asking: so, why do we care? What makes this wedding/event/weekend special?
I was worried at first that Fin would be all woe is me/whiny while considering: do I want to get married? do I love this person? do I believe in the concept of marriage? But as we get to know Fin, we understand that it's a lot deeper than that and it's more--will taking the next step change everything that's been good about the life and the person who I love or will it make things even better and being okay with the idea of not knowing and taking it one day at a time.
I liked that the book jumped around to all of the friends in the group, but it was a bid odd, because you are prepared to be in Fin's point of view and then suddenly it's jumping to third person everyone, but somehow the narrator is a bit omniscient and knows how everyone is thinking internally. I wish we got the variety of everyone, but were left to wonder about the accuracy of the internal monologue and the behind the scenes, or we got an in-depth first person POV for Fin. At the least, I think a character name under each chapter would be helpful as it takes a few lines to try and realize whose storyline you are following for the moment and by the time you figure it out, you've jumped to the next character in line.
This is not an I-can't-put-this-book-down page turner, but I don't think it's meant to be. It's a check in with yourself and your friends as you shift from college and graduate school friends into the real world and are left wondering now what and how do we do this? How do we make these big decisions? How do we do the little things like making friends as an adult or maintaining old friendships when everyone is scattered all over and doesn't have college in common anymore? It's almost like a shared diary of a bunch of thirty somethings who think no one else feels the way they feel when they actually are all very much on the same page.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
3.5 stars
Families have their dysfunction, but nothing brings them out quite as much as a wedding. And the literary world is so much richer for that fact. Thanks to Putnam and NetGalley for the advance copy of this book!
Fin’s beloved cousin Elaine is getting married and she has asked him to officiate. The wedding is in June in the sweltering heat and humidity of Texas—and it’s being held at a kitschy Wild West-themed resort, which is something he’d never imagine Elaine choosing.
He and his best friend Jacque are reunited when he arrives in Texas from his home in Brooklyn. Both of them have been to their share of disastrous weddings and neither has come close to taking the plunge themselves. Although Fin has a secret: he and his boyfriend Mark recently got engaged, but Fin is so sure the relationship will fall apart before a wedding ever happens.
Fin and Jacque connect with friends of Elaine’s husband-to-be: Todd and his overbearing alcoholic husband, David, and their best friend, Marina. The five of them comprise the wedding’s “queer table,” and do all they can to enjoy the activity-filled days leading up to the wedding. But the fun comes with some awkward moments for each of them, with secrets being revealed and arguments catching fire, as everyone tries to keep the peace for Elaine and Rupert’s sake.
Often the best part of a wedding is getting the opportunity to criticize it afterwards. When their college friends started getting married, Fin, Jacque, and Elaine instituted The Hour of Disrespect, a period of 60 minutes after the wedding where criticisms can be discussed, and then never be spoken of again. Will there be a wedding to disrespect? And will they all be there to see it happen?
I had really high hopes for this book, as I absolutely loved Bobby Finger’s two previous books. I enjoyed this but it all seemed to drag on for too long, and the miscommunication among some of the characters frustrated me. But in the end, this was a sharply insightful and emotional read.
The book will publish 6/16.
Check out my best reads of 2025 at https://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-best-books-i-read-in-2025.html .
See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com.
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Families have their dysfunction, but nothing brings them out quite as much as a wedding. And the literary world is so much richer for that fact. Thanks to Putnam and NetGalley for the advance copy of this book!
Fin’s beloved cousin Elaine is getting married and she has asked him to officiate. The wedding is in June in the sweltering heat and humidity of Texas—and it’s being held at a kitschy Wild West-themed resort, which is something he’d never imagine Elaine choosing.
He and his best friend Jacque are reunited when he arrives in Texas from his home in Brooklyn. Both of them have been to their share of disastrous weddings and neither has come close to taking the plunge themselves. Although Fin has a secret: he and his boyfriend Mark recently got engaged, but Fin is so sure the relationship will fall apart before a wedding ever happens.
Fin and Jacque connect with friends of Elaine’s husband-to-be: Todd and his overbearing alcoholic husband, David, and their best friend, Marina. The five of them comprise the wedding’s “queer table,” and do all they can to enjoy the activity-filled days leading up to the wedding. But the fun comes with some awkward moments for each of them, with secrets being revealed and arguments catching fire, as everyone tries to keep the peace for Elaine and Rupert’s sake.
Often the best part of a wedding is getting the opportunity to criticize it afterwards. When their college friends started getting married, Fin, Jacque, and Elaine instituted The Hour of Disrespect, a period of 60 minutes after the wedding where criticisms can be discussed, and then never be spoken of again. Will there be a wedding to disrespect? And will they all be there to see it happen?
I had really high hopes for this book, as I absolutely loved Bobby Finger’s two previous books. I enjoyed this but it all seemed to drag on for too long, and the miscommunication among some of the characters frustrated me. But in the end, this was a sharply insightful and emotional read.
The book will publish 6/16.
Check out my best reads of 2025 at https://itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-best-books-i-read-in-2025.html .
See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria.blogspot.com.
Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/getbookedwithlarry/.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
I went into We Are Gathered Here by Bobby Finger expecting a sharp, funny take on a wedding weekend—and in some ways, it delivers exactly that.
The story follows Fin, a small-time influencer attending his friend Elaine’s wedding, where the schedule is packed with quirky events (including an “hour of discontent” where guests are encouraged to air their grievances). The novel revolves around a large cast of characters drifting in and out of conversations, sharing observations about relationships, weddings, and modern social expectations.
At its best, the book offers genuinely funny and well-written moments. Some of the social commentary lands nicely, especially in how it captures the absurdities and quiet frustrations of wedding culture. I’ve seen comparisons to a modern Seinfeld, and that feels accurate—it’s very much about a group of people interacting, with the humor coming from their conversations rather than from any major plot developments.
That said, the biggest drawback for me was the lack of momentum. Not much really happens. It’s a wedding weekend, and the story largely just follows that structure without building toward anything particularly impactful. While it’s not unenjoyable, it can feel like it’s hovering in place.
Overall, this is an easy, low-stakes read with some entertaining moments. If you’re in the mood for something light and observational that doesn’t require much investment, it could be a good pick. But if you’re working through a long TBR and looking for something more substantial or plot-driven, this might be one you can skip.
Thanks to NetGalley and Putnam for the ARC. Book to be published June 16,2026.
The story follows Fin, a small-time influencer attending his friend Elaine’s wedding, where the schedule is packed with quirky events (including an “hour of discontent” where guests are encouraged to air their grievances). The novel revolves around a large cast of characters drifting in and out of conversations, sharing observations about relationships, weddings, and modern social expectations.
At its best, the book offers genuinely funny and well-written moments. Some of the social commentary lands nicely, especially in how it captures the absurdities and quiet frustrations of wedding culture. I’ve seen comparisons to a modern Seinfeld, and that feels accurate—it’s very much about a group of people interacting, with the humor coming from their conversations rather than from any major plot developments.
That said, the biggest drawback for me was the lack of momentum. Not much really happens. It’s a wedding weekend, and the story largely just follows that structure without building toward anything particularly impactful. While it’s not unenjoyable, it can feel like it’s hovering in place.
Overall, this is an easy, low-stakes read with some entertaining moments. If you’re in the mood for something light and observational that doesn’t require much investment, it could be a good pick. But if you’re working through a long TBR and looking for something more substantial or plot-driven, this might be one you can skip.
Thanks to NetGalley and Putnam for the ARC. Book to be published June 16,2026.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
This was a fun, emotional read that I really enjoyed! This story follows Finlay Hightower, a gay man in his late 30s throughout an extensive wedding weekend of his best friend/cousin. Joining Fin are an array of friends and new acquaintances, all with their own quirks and drama. All of the characters learn much about themselves and each other throughout a wild-west themed multi-day wedding extravaganza.
Fin's perspective on life, marriage, and society was complex and fun to read. The narration was sarcastic but realistic, beautifully written, and all of the characters felt like real people. Throughout the tale, I felt like I was right there with them as a wedding guest. Even though the timeline of the novel only spans a few days, the growth and development of these characters was tangible and it left a lasting impression.
The narration style of this story was fairly unique - it is told mainly from Fin's perspective but occasionally becomes a more omniscient narration, where you jump between characters' inner thoughts without clear transition points. I found this a little bit confusing at the start, but ultimately enjoyed getting to know the other characters on a deeper level.
I really don't have anything negative to say about this book - recommend to all who enjoyed the Wedding People and similar stories.
Thank you to NetGalley, Bobby Finger and Putnam for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Fin's perspective on life, marriage, and society was complex and fun to read. The narration was sarcastic but realistic, beautifully written, and all of the characters felt like real people. Throughout the tale, I felt like I was right there with them as a wedding guest. Even though the timeline of the novel only spans a few days, the growth and development of these characters was tangible and it left a lasting impression.
The narration style of this story was fairly unique - it is told mainly from Fin's perspective but occasionally becomes a more omniscient narration, where you jump between characters' inner thoughts without clear transition points. I found this a little bit confusing at the start, but ultimately enjoyed getting to know the other characters on a deeper level.
I really don't have anything negative to say about this book - recommend to all who enjoyed the Wedding People and similar stories.
Thank you to NetGalley, Bobby Finger and Putnam for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
I wanted to love this one—the premise has so much going for it. A chaotic Texas wedding weekend, a queer friend group with a decade-long pact to reserve judgment until after the "I dos," and a recently engaged narrator questioning the entire institution of marriage? On paper, this should've been catnip for me.
But the execution fell flat. The plot felt thin, more of a vehicle for vibes than actual narrative momentum, and despite the ensemble cast, I never got beneath the surface with any of these characters. For a book that hinges on friendship, love, and the messy emotional stakes of commitment, everyone felt oddly sketched-in. I kept waiting for the interiority to deepen, for Fin's unease about marriage to crack open into something raw and real—but it never quite got there.
I'm a sucker for character-driven fiction. I will happily read 300 pages of two people in a room if the characterization is rich enough. This just... wasn't that.
I wanted to love this one—the premise has so much going for it. A chaotic Texas wedding weekend, a queer friend group with a decade-long pact to reserve judgment until after the "I dos," and a recently engaged narrator questioning the entire institution of marriage? On paper, this should've been catnip for me.
But the execution fell flat. The plot felt thin, more of a vehicle for vibes than actual narrative momentum, and despite the ensemble cast, I never got beneath the surface with any of these characters. For a book that hinges on friendship, love, and the messy emotional stakes of commitment, everyone felt oddly sketched-in. I kept waiting for the interiority to deepen, for Fin's unease about marriage to crack open into something raw and real—but it never quite got there.
I'm a sucker for character-driven fiction. I will happily read 300 pages of two people in a room if the characterization is rich enough. This just... wasn't that.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Many thanks to G.P. Putnam Sons and Netgalley for the ARC!
If you're searching for a fun, cozy beach read this summer, I'd recommend this book. The story is a sweet, but not saccharine, slice-of-life story about thirty-year-olds who are trying to solidify their stance on love.
My biggest issue with this book is that the story felt way too safe. I read Bobby Finger's Four Squares and really enjoyed it because the story seemed more distinct. I don't think that We Are Gathered Here Today will be that memorable. Weddings are inherently maudlin, so maybe that's part of the territory. This book even contains a gay character named Todd, so this book should be an automatic four stars for me. However, I just don't think the uncertainty of marriage as the main conflict raises the stakes enough.
Also, I wish some of the side characters had more personality. David and Mark felt like archetypes instead of actual characters. Overall, this is a good comfort read, but I don't anticipate it will be a book that I think about often.
If you're searching for a fun, cozy beach read this summer, I'd recommend this book. The story is a sweet, but not saccharine, slice-of-life story about thirty-year-olds who are trying to solidify their stance on love.
My biggest issue with this book is that the story felt way too safe. I read Bobby Finger's Four Squares and really enjoyed it because the story seemed more distinct. I don't think that We Are Gathered Here Today will be that memorable. Weddings are inherently maudlin, so maybe that's part of the territory. This book even contains a gay character named Todd, so this book should be an automatic four stars for me. However, I just don't think the uncertainty of marriage as the main conflict raises the stakes enough.
Also, I wish some of the side characters had more personality. David and Mark felt like archetypes instead of actual characters. Overall, this is a good comfort read, but I don't anticipate it will be a book that I think about often.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
📝 ARC Review: Sadly this was a DNF at 30% in (wanted to at 15% and stuck it out a little longer). That being said, I obviously can’t review for the entire story, only the extent I read and why I didn’t finish it.
I thought the cover was cute and the blurb sounded intriguing. I was hoping for some fun wedding weekend antics, family vibes and reflective perspective, based off the blurb. - What I wound up with was a story that felt extremely verbose and dry/boring. Also, really long paragraphs. I couldn’t connect with the characters and there was literally nothing that caught and held my attention. It just felt flat. When it didn’t improve by 30% in, I decided not to waste my time with a story I just wasn’t enjoying. So it was a miss for me, but hopefully others enjoy it!
Genre: LGBTQ/Adult Fiction
POV: Third Person; Single
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️ 2/5
Release Date: June 15, 2026
Tropes 👇
- Destination wedding
- LGBTQ rep
- Mulling over the topic of marriage
Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
I thought the cover was cute and the blurb sounded intriguing. I was hoping for some fun wedding weekend antics, family vibes and reflective perspective, based off the blurb. - What I wound up with was a story that felt extremely verbose and dry/boring. Also, really long paragraphs. I couldn’t connect with the characters and there was literally nothing that caught and held my attention. It just felt flat. When it didn’t improve by 30% in, I decided not to waste my time with a story I just wasn’t enjoying. So it was a miss for me, but hopefully others enjoy it!
Genre: LGBTQ/Adult Fiction
POV: Third Person; Single
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️ 2/5
Release Date: June 15, 2026
Tropes 👇
- Destination wedding
- LGBTQ rep
- Mulling over the topic of marriage
Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Bobby Finger, known for weaving intricate stories from seemingly simple narratives, delivers another captivating tale in this upcoming novel.
Fans of The Wedding People or any Steven Rowley novel will find this one particularly enjoyable, as it revolves around a weekend-long wedding celebration. The protagonist, Fin, is asked to officiate his cousin’s wedding in the Hill Country in Texas and leaves behind a few secrets and baggage behind in New York City that gradually unfold throughout the story.
This was my third novel by Finger, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, I’ll admit that it didn’t quite reach the same level of strength as his previous works. There were instances where the narrative became overly detailed and deviated from the main plot.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel. It’s scheduled to be released on June 16, 2026.
Fans of The Wedding People or any Steven Rowley novel will find this one particularly enjoyable, as it revolves around a weekend-long wedding celebration. The protagonist, Fin, is asked to officiate his cousin’s wedding in the Hill Country in Texas and leaves behind a few secrets and baggage behind in New York City that gradually unfold throughout the story.
This was my third novel by Finger, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, I’ll admit that it didn’t quite reach the same level of strength as his previous works. There were instances where the narrative became overly detailed and deviated from the main plot.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel. It’s scheduled to be released on June 16, 2026.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
I received We Are Gathered Here today from NetGalley for an honest review. The story takes place at a Texas wedding weekend extravaganza. At the surface, it seemed like it would be a fun read- kitschy Texas wedding, a cast of characters, and an hour of discontent where everyone takes one hour to complain after each wedding they attend. While there was a focus on 6 of the friends who were all part of LGBTQ community, it felt like you never got to really know them. Topics of marriage, happiness, relationships, family dynamics, and substance abuse all were addressed in the book, but it felt like it was all done at a fairly surface level. While the book was fairly short, the story felt both too long because nothing was happening and too short because you never got to know the characters in any depth. Cute premise with poor execution.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
A good read for people who like character growth as the main focus. Who don’t mind a slow, wandering narrative. And who want a reflective look on relationships.
This was a beautiful written story that at first glance was about nothing, a long weekend celebrating the pending nuptials of two people. But interwoven in the mundane weekend activities is a story about relationships and marriage. Why people get married, why they don’t; why couples stay married, why they don’t. And how experiences in our lives change one’s views on relationships and marriage.
Thanks to Bobby Finger, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.
This was a beautiful written story that at first glance was about nothing, a long weekend celebrating the pending nuptials of two people. But interwoven in the mundane weekend activities is a story about relationships and marriage. Why people get married, why they don’t; why couples stay married, why they don’t. And how experiences in our lives change one’s views on relationships and marriage.
Thanks to Bobby Finger, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.
February 15, 2026
We Are Gathered Here Today raises a variety of fresh perspectives on relationships, marriage, and love that I found compelling. While I appreciated the premise, the pacing was slower than I would have liked.
This book would appeal to readers interested in LGBTQ+ relationship stories and character-driven fiction that prioritizes reflection—particularly how lived experience shapes personal values and perceptions of others.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book would appeal to readers interested in LGBTQ+ relationship stories and character-driven fiction that prioritizes reflection—particularly how lived experience shapes personal values and perceptions of others.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
I really enjoyed The Old Place by Bobby Finger, which was such a feel-good romp. We Are Gathered Here Today just didn’t match that same tone for me. The cynicism felt a bit off-putting. I love a book filled with kooky characters, but most of these weren’t very likable or just unhappy. While that may be more realistic, it was less fun than I was expecting.
Thanks to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for the ARC through NetGalley.
Thanks to G. P. Putnam’s Sons for the ARC through NetGalley.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Fin is attending a wild west themed wedding week for his beloved cousin. It serves as a way for him to reflect on his own feelings about marriage after secretly getting engaged to his boyfriend. The book was okay. The plot is kind of slight, and I also feel like you don't really get to know the characters beyond a surface level.
April 12, 2026
An interesting read. Delved into current thoughts many members of the current generation have about marriage and its value, relevance, or need. (More so after a failed one, myself included!) Also portrayed and argued the vulnerability needed for those who make such a choice. A tale about family, friendship, connection and love of different kinds. It was sweet and heartwarming in different ways and I enjoyed it.
Why not a full 5 stars? Perhaps because I went into reading it expecting the fireworks my heart had while reading “the wedding people” and got much less of a blast. It was also a bit slow in the middle parts.
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Thank you, NetGalley, for allowing me the chance to pre read this wonderful book!
Why not a full 5 stars? Perhaps because I went into reading it expecting the fireworks my heart had while reading “the wedding people” and got much less of a blast. It was also a bit slow in the middle parts.
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Thank you, NetGalley, for allowing me the chance to pre read this wonderful book!
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
DNF We Are Gathered Here Today by Bobby Finger.
I made it about a third of the way in and realized… nothing had happened that felt exciting, urgent, or even particularly interesting. I didn’t feel invested in what any of the characters were doing, and that’s usually my sign to let a book go.
Maybe it clicks later, but it didn’t for me. 📚
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy.
I made it about a third of the way in and realized… nothing had happened that felt exciting, urgent, or even particularly interesting. I didn’t feel invested in what any of the characters were doing, and that’s usually my sign to let a book go.
Maybe it clicks later, but it didn’t for me. 📚
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy.
March 20, 2026
I loved this book - it was realistic, fun and sometimes painful. It felt like hanging out with the cool (although troubled) people during a wedding weekend and getting to partake in all the laughter and experience the drama with them.
April 6, 2026
A fun gay time! We Are Gathered Here Today follows a group of 30- something wedding attendees through meeting strangers, facing futures, and coming to terms with what they really want. Great representation, interesting characters, an all around fun light read.
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