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Destination Funeral

by Paige Harbison

An island reunion caught in a repeating weekend

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An island reunion caught in a repeating weekend

Babe’s death draws four estranged friends back to Mercy Island, where the reading of her will reunites them in a weather-beaten pink house. The gathering’s planned weekend becomes a time loop: Saturday keeps returning, leaving the group to face the betrayals, breakups, and buried truths that shaped their history. The setup joins a coastal Georgia reunion with a speculative device, placing old friendships and unresolved conflict at the heart of the story. The novel’s central question is how a group fractured by its past might use an impossible stretch of time to change what comes next.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in stories about estranged friends and complicated reunions.
  • For readers who enjoy a time-loop premise paired with relationship drama.
  • For readers drawn to coastal settings and stories of long-standing friendship.

Themes

Estranged friendshipBetrayal and reconciliationUnfinished businessTime loopsSecond chances

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Book overview

"Fun and sexy." ―People Magazine

"Paige Harbison is one of the funniest writers working today." ―Bustle

A fresh take on Groundhog Day with a dash of Practical Magic meets the magical escapism of One Italian Summer in this heartfelt and hilarious novel following a friend group so damaged that only a funeral could bring them back together.

When Babe--the complicated, magnetic matriarch of their teenage summers--dies, four estranged friends return to sleepy Mercy Island, a storm-swept stretch of coastal Georgia, summoned by the reading of her will.

Didion arrives at the timeworn pink house to find the friends she never thought she'd see again--along with the tensions, attractions, and unfinished business that once bound them together and broke them apart.

What should be a brief weekend of small talk quickly unravels when they wake up and discover...it's Saturday. Again. And again. And again.

Trapped in a time loop with no end and no instructions, they're forced to confront the betrayals, breakups, and buried truths that shattered them all those years ago. Because maybe, just maybe, an endless weekend is exactly what they all need to save their own lives.

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