A review by webslingingadam
After the Fireworks: Three Novellas by Gary Giddins, Aldous Huxley

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A collection of three novellas by Aldous Huxley. The core theme of all three stories is the fictional lives we all build for ourselves through the identities we create. We believe we should be certain types of people and live certain types of lives and so we become those people and shape our lives to fit them even if it is against our natures to do so, and this is something we can and do observe in those around us but always believe ourselves to be genuine despite evidence to the contrary and sometimes it works and often it doesn’t. I enjoyed them, and Two Or Three Graces is the most humorous of the stories and also the most heartfelt.