Cassandra at the Wedding

âI am not, at heart, a jumper. I think I knew all the time I was sizing up the bridge that the strong possibility was Iâd attend my sisterâs wedding.â
Cassandra Edwards is driving home to her familyâs Californian ranch to attend the wedding of her beloved identical twin, Judith. A graduate student at Berkeley, Cassandra is gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable â and hell-bent on making sure her sisterâs wedding doesnât go ahead.
Armed with a clutch bag full of pills and an unquenchable thirst for brandy, Cassandra arrives determined to make Judith see sense. But over the course of the next couple of days Cassandra unravels.
A classic of twentieth-century American literature, Cassandra at the Wedding is a stylish, witty and insightful novel about love, loyalty and coming to terms with the only life you have.
âI â whose usual bed time is ten oâclock â stayed up all night reading that exquisite Cassandra at the Wedding â dazzled by the pyrotechnics of such an artist.â â Carson McCullers
âModern readers will relish the pin-sharp portrait of a tiny part of society, as if picked out in Californian sunlight. Really good writing like this doesnât age.â â Guardian
âWitty and assured. Her tone is dark but jaunty, the writing off-handedly smart.â â London Review of Books
âBakerâs ear for dialogue is acute, her prose immaculate⊠this is a novel of exceptional quality.â â TLS