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STYLE + LEISURE

SUMMER READ
We’ve got your summer read. Based in Houston in the 1950s, ANTON DISCLAFANI’S latest book,
The After Party, follows socialite and “it” girl Joan Fortier as she navigates/dominates the
local social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful and strong, Joan is the center of it all from the club
scene, country club and gossip columns. Men want her and women want to be her. Friends
since childhood, Cece Buchanan follows Joan in a world of garden clubs and debutante balls
where the money flows as freely as the oil – as Joan’s behavior escalates, unfurling a story of
friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming and complicated as any romance.

www.amazon.com/After-Party-Novel-Anton-DiSclafani/dp/1594633169

By Carla Valencia de Martinéz

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