Songs for Other People's Weddings
by David Levithan, with songs by Jens Lekman
Narrated by Jefferson Mays
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Pub Date Aug 05 2025 | Archive Date Aug 12 2025
RBmedia | Recorded Books
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Description
From award-winning, international bestselling author David Levithan, in collaboration with beloved musician Jens Lekman, a charming, heartwarming novel about an unlucky-in-love wedding singer.
J is a wedding singer, but it didn't start that way. He wrote a love song for one of his albums that accidentally became an international hit for to-be-wed couples around the world. These days, J talks to couples about all the small, strange things that brought them together—and then he writes and performs an original song at their weddings. But whatever he tries, he can’t find the perfect words for his own love with V. Now V is off to New York, helping launch a social media platform that has struck gold. Her work becomes all-consuming, and J feels himself being shuffled out of her life. J seeks refuge and wisdom in the happy couples he writes for, who all look so unshakably connected. And so, whether through fate or sheer determination, J sets his sights on New York, to see if he can’t get V and himself singing in harmony once again, even while the tune of their song may be changed for good.
Inspired by Lekman’s own career in wedding songs and studded with his inventive and touching lyrics, Other People's Weddings is a tender, comic novel told in weddings that sings a love song of empathy, change, and, of course, music.
Advance Praise
"The concept is immensely clever . . . Much like a good love song, this story demands to be felt." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"An accomplished novel . . . Levithan’s heartfelt prose and Lekman’s songs for each of the novel’s 10 weddings offer genuine and often funny depictions of love’s messiness. It adds up to an impressive meditation on love and letting go." --Publishers Weekly
“Witty, romantic, and deeply satisfying.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow
“Surprising, funny, compassionate—Songs for Other People's Weddings Is not just lyrical, it sings.” —Steven Rowley, New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants and The Guncle
“A hilarious, heartfelt, and tremendously wise exploration of love in all its beguiling and bittersweet absurdity.” —Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding
Available Editions
EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
ISBN | 9798895949245 |
PRICE | $29.99 (USD) |
DURATION | 10 Hours, 40 Minutes |
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