The After Party : A Novel (Paperback)

from konastories

Joy's review: Two girls with more money than sense become young women... they never do get much sense. Set in Rich Houston in the 50's and 60's, one is glamorous the other is the reliable friend. I never quite got why everyone admired the glamorous one or why old reliable followed her around like...

from booksandscones

An unpleasant book about a wildly out-of-whack "friendship" between two young women in the repressive debutante ball and country club world of 1950s Houston, Texas. Cece's obsession with Joan bordered on sickness. As well as the unsavoury dynamic between girlfriends, between mothers & daughters, ...

from mwatson4281

This was a solid 1.5 stars. Everything about it sounded like something I would love. I couldn't wait to immerse myself in old Houston high society, but everything fell flat. This was marketed as a period piece with an intriguing twist, but the intriguing twist wasn't intriguing at all. I could no...

from Narshkite

I love the idea of taking a particular group of people at a particular moment in time and creating not just a story, but an almost hyperreal chronicle of a moment. This is one of the things I loved so much about Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series. That said, this only works if the particular grou...

from wagner.sarah35

An engrossing novel focused on a female friendship, as two Houston socialites try to know each other and secrets are slowly unraveled. This is escapist historical fiction, if not quite at its best, still pretty darn good. Surrounded by wealth, Joan Fortier and Cecilia Buchanan are lifelong friend...