Chapter 23
More than fifty guests milled about the grassy courtyard of Matbronze Gallery. It was just after sunset, and the outdoor dining area had been strung with festive lights. Harry could see that the partygoers included many more whites than blacks, most if not all of them middle-aged or older, all in cocktail dress, except for a few silver-haired white males who dared to wear their leisure suits with running shoes. All of the black men were in sharply tailored business suits. The women wore colorful print dresses or evening gowns, most with deliberately gaudy African craft jewelry.
Wait staff hustled among them carrying trays of drinks and canapes. The help were noticeably younger men and women, perhaps college students with part-time jobs, in monogrammed red golf shirts and black
