![]() ![]() Though they haven't seen each other in years, the pile-up of disappointments in Liselle's life inspires her to call and leave a one-word message for her old friend. ![]() Liselle read Lorde her senior year of college, during her brief affair with a woman named Selena Octave. Set in the author's hometown of Philadelphia, this novel-part social satire, part character study-takes its title from a trickster in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982). Her doubts about the evening are compounded by the fear that her husband will be hauled away by the FBI before dessert though he doesn't know it yet, she's been told he may soon be indicted for corruption. Winn has just lost an election for the state legislature, and Liselle has planned a dinner party as a last hurrah for their biggest supporters. Known as "The Wolf" by her sister lesbians at Bryn Mawr 20 years ago, Liselle is now married to a White man, a lawyer-turned-politician named Winn Anderson. ![]() As failure and shame threaten to demolish her world, a Black woman throws a dinner party.and thinks wistfully about her past. ![]()
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