The After Party

A Novel

De: Anton DiSclafani

Narrado por: Dorothy Dillingham Blue

"A vintage version of 'Gossip Girl' meets bigger hair." —The Skimm

"DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail." —People

From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation.

Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan’s radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is.

A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.

Loved hearing about old-time Houston!

I loved hearing about the elegance and scandal of the 1950's Houston oil boom.
Anyone interested in this type of history would thoroughly enjoy this book.
The only down side was the confusion the author created at times by jumping back and forth between time periods.

Examination of a friendship

I enjoyed this. The setting of 1950's Houston was vividly depicted; the author obviously did a lot of research and worked the details into the story smoothly. This story of a dysfunctional friendship is very insightful and I found it quite interesting. Wonderful narration, too.

I wanted to jump inside the book!

This is an easy read and I was very enthralled with the women. There were times I wanted to jump in the book and kind of lead Ce Ce down a differnt path and talk to her about better choices! Sometimes I wanted to choke her. Definitely a great beach read but be prepared for a narrator that will make you love her and want to slap at the same time!

Entertaining

Narrator kept you there! Had a three day drive, the narrator was believable! She put a movie in my head!

Tiresome

The strange attachment of CiCi to June got tiring really quick. Would not recommend due to the fact that there wasn't much complexity in the story or the characters past an unhealthy obsession and a rich, beautiful (spoiled) girl unsatisfied with having everything on a golden platter so she decides to continually sabotage herself.