American Housewife

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle
Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven.
Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?”
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I thought this collection of short stories about often times petty housewives was actually pretty funny. Dark and dry with occasionally twisted endings. "This Novel Is Brought To You By Tampax" is the sort of story I'd share with my friends under the dinner table. My gathering of friends would get a good laugh at Paula Deen breaking into our houses to force us to write more.
Read all the advanced praise. Waited for it to come out. Pulled strings to land myself to the front of the reserve line. Enjoyed the first few stories. Started and skimmed a few. Half way through the last story I gave up and closed the book. Overall impression: Funny at times but mostly not. Uneven. Feels like a rough draft.
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