![]() ![]() ![]() student/immigrant rights activist daughter instead. Xochitl (whose name Liselle can’t pronounce) arrives to serve the gathering, replacing Liselle’s usual help aging bad-kneed Jimena has sent her Ph.D. Yes, indeed, “delusion” is all too real in Liselle’s home. Liselle’s mother especially disdains the “Win-Winn” campaign, acerbically living up to her truth-telling name, Verity: “You want to know if you should throw a party to thank these people who had nothing better to do with their money and time than to help you delude yourselves?” She’s been teaching history at a private school, but is taking a break, ostensibly to help Winn’s run for state representative. At Bryn Mawr, Liselle was known as “The Wolf” among the undergrad lesbians, but she eventually chose marriage to Winn. ![]() ![]() She’s West Philadelphia Black, he’s Connecticut white they met in New York but settled in Philadelphia. It’s Li selle” – and Winn have been married for almost 15 years. Liselle – “ Liesl was a character in The Sound of Music. But Solomon deftly expands the defining event with backstories enhanced with sharp insights on race, class, privilege, shifting identities. What happens in The Days of Afrekete, the second novel by Asali Solomon ( Disgruntled), takes just an evening: Liselle Belmont prepares for and hosts a dinner party to thank her husband Winn’s loyal supporters, despite a failed political campaign. ![]()
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