A review by meghan111
The After Party by Anton DiSclafani

2.0

Historical fiction about 1950s upper crust Houston society, focusing on two 25-year-old women who have been friends since early childhood. One is pretty, one is stunning. One is happy with her marriage and place in society, one hasn't married and longs to leave Houston society forever. Privileged lives make for sort of boring reading in this case - this book also doesn't handle race well, referring to archaic terms for black people but without ever exploring the issue, it's just sort of an aside. There are two African-American sisters who are nannies for the two main characters when they're children, and I would have loved for the book to be in whole or part about them.