The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess

  The Last Book Party:  A Novel by Karen Dukess. Henry Holt and Company, 2019. Adult fiction.

    It's the late 1980's and Eve Rosen chafes in her going nowhere job in New York City. She aspires to write her own books, but reads through the slush pile at a major publisher. Eve lives in the shadow of her brilliant mathematician brother. This is a twenty something who needs help! When she is invited to a Cape Cod party at the home of Henry Grey, she jumps at the chance to go, to meet people, to become more than she thinks she is. The party does result in a job offer that will change Eve's life. But her youth, idealism, and inexperience pit her against much older, more jaded, and people who are part of the island clique.