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American housewife : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION ELLI (OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Doubleday, 2016.

Physical Description

188 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster,American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood. --Publisher

Contents

  • What I do all day
  • The wainscoting war
  • Dumpster diving with the stars
  • Southern lady code
  • Hello! Welcome to the book club
  • The fitter
  • How to be a grown-ass lady
  • How to be a patron of the arts
  • Dead doormen
  • Pageant protection
  • Take it from cats
  • My novel is brought to you by the good people at Tampax.

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