American Housewife

Meet the women of American Housewife They smoke their eyes and paint their lips. They channel Beyonce while doing household chores. They drown their sorrows with Chanel No. 5 and host book clubs where chardonnay trumps Charles Dickens. They redecorate. And they are quietly capable of kidnapping, breaking and entering, and murder. These women know the rules of a well-lived life: replace your tights every winter, listen to erotic audio books while you scrub the bathroom floor, serve what you want to eat at your dinner parties, and accept it: you're too old to have more than one drink and sleep through the night. Vicious, fresh and darkly hilarious, American Housewife is a collection of stories for anyone who has ever wondered what really goes on behind the faades of the housewives of America ';Surreal tales of American weirdness, with details that ring all tootrue. Ouch, I say at times. At other times, yikes' Margaret Atwood, Guardian Best Books of the Year ';I tore through it. It's MAD. Utterly mad but brilliant' Louise O'Neill ';Each perfect little story is a fine chocolate, laced with arsenic. Wickedly funny, painfully truthful' Erin Kelly ';After readingAmerican Housewife, Im convinced Dorothy Parker faked her death and is alive and writing under the pen name ';Helen Ellis'. Witty, lacerating, and sometimes touching, this book is a salty assortment of surprises, each more delicious than the last. Savor it with a dry martini' Deanna Raybourn