Songs for Other People's WeddingsSongs for Other People's Weddings

"From award-winning, international bestselling author David Levithan, in collaboration with beloved musician Jens Lekman, comes a charming, heartwarming novel about an unlucky-in-love wedding singer If you ever need a stranger To sing at your wedding A last-minute choice then I am your man 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. 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 J 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. While V's life grows bigger and busier without J in it, he 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. But could it be that the tune of their song changed for good? With David Levithan's signature storytelling, inspired by Jens Lekman's career in wedding songs and studded with Lekman's inventive and touching lyrics, Songs for Other People's Weddings is a tender, comic novel that sings a love song of empathy, change, and, of course, music-the ephemeral melodies that play witness to the lasting bonds at the center of our lives"--