Meet the women of American HousewifeâŚ
They smoke their eyes and paint their lips. They channel BeyoncĂŠ 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: youâre 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 façades of the housewives of AmericaâŚ
âSurreal tales of American weirdness, with details that ring all too true. Ouch, I say at times. At other times, yikesâ Margaret Atwood, Guardian Best Books of the Year
âI tore through it. Itâs MAD. Utterly mad but brilliantâ Louise OâNeill
âEach perfect little story is a fine chocolate, laced with arsenic. Wickedly funny, painfully truthfulâ Erin Kelly
âAfter reading American Housewife, I'm convinced Dorothy Parker faked her death and is alive and writing under the pen name âHelen Ellisâ. Witty, lacerating, and sometimes touching, this book is a salty assortment of surprises, each more delicious than the last. Savor it with a dry martiniâ Deanna Raybourn