Afterparty
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Many thanks to Professor Amir Hussain and to Rabbi Morley Finestein for sharing your wisdom with so much depth and sensitivity. I am deeply grateful for your help. Thanks also to my dear Mimi Roberts for help on the Montreal front; to Menachem Kaiser for his input on the use of the word “shiksa”; and to super-librarian and horse expert Leslie Chudnoff, who was kind enough not to laugh at me when Loogs acted more like a very large wheaten terrier than a horse. (If I did blow it, the fault is mine, of course, and not that of the experts who tried to save me from myself.)
Thank you, Alethea Allarey, for keeping me electronically connected, technologically semi-competent, and sometimes, also, sane.
To the L.A. branch of the Apocalypsies—thank you for taking me in. The half a clue I finally have, I got from you. And to the LAYAS, you rock. To my critique group, Alexis O’Neal, Caroline Arnold, Gretchen Woelffle, Nina Kidd, and Sherril Kushner for years of support and friendship and wisdom and input: thank you.
To my mom, Lillian Redisch, who is still cheerleading as avidly as when I was a six year old with a black-and-white marbled notebook and a pencil, and to my mother-in-law, Marilyn Stampler, and our dear friend, Jay Markoff, with all my books on permanent display on your coffee table, thanks.
Laura and Michael, you are phenomenally good storytellers in your own right, and such sage advisers. Thanks. Laura, your notes saved me when I was stuck. I love you both so much. And as for Rick, you read every word of every draft, and offered smart, smart input and endless encouragement. Then there’s your complete willingness to share our house with new crews of characters for years at a time, and act as if it’s normal to have conversations about them as if they were real. I love you. I thank you. I appreciate you.
Finally, Evan, rescue dog extraordinaire, thank you for reforming and not actually eating any significant pieces of paper, note cards, or paper clips involved in the creation of this book.
ANN REDISCH STAMPLER is also the author of Where It Began as well as several picture books, including The Rooster Prince of Breslov. Her books have been an Aesop Accolade winner, Sydney Taylor Honor and Notable books, a National Jewish Book Awards finalist and winner, and Bank Street Best Books of the Year. Ann lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Rick.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stampler, Ann Redisch.
Afterparty / Ann Redisch Stampler. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
p. cm.
Summary: Tired of always being the good girl, Emma forms a friendship with fun and alluring Siobhan. But Siobhan’s dangerous lifestyle becomes more than Emma can handle.
ISBN 978-1-4424-2324-4
[1. Conduct of life—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Peer pressure—Fiction.
4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Single-parent families—Fiction.
7. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S78614Aft 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013029008
ISBN 978-1-4424-2326-8 (eBook)
Contents
Part One
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Part Two
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine
Part Three
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-One
Chapter Fifty-Two
Chapter Fifty-Three
Chapter Fifty-Four
Chapter Fifty-Five
Chapter Fifty-Six
Chapter Fifty-Seven
Chapter Fifty-Eight
Chapter Fifty-Nine
Chapter Sixty
Chapter Sixty-One
Chapter Sixty-Two
Chapter Sixty-Three
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About Ann Redisch Stampler