American Housewife: Stories
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A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.
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.
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.
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Humor (Fiction)
Literature
Overdrive
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Overdrive -- Ebook -- Adult -- Fiction
Revenge
Revenge -- Fiction
Short stories
Short stories, American
Women
Women -- Fiction
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Femininity
Femininity -- Fiction
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Humor (Fiction)
Literature
Overdrive
Overdrive -- Ebook
Overdrive -- Ebook -- Adult -- Fiction
Revenge
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9780385541046
9780399565700
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| Grouping Title | american housewife |
| Grouping Author | helen ellis |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2023-02-04 03:52:40AM |
| Last Indexed | 2023-02-03 04:22:26AM |
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Blue, Dorothy Dillingham
Cordileone, Lisa
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Lowman, Rebecca
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Ellis, Helen.Dead doormen
Ellis, Helen.Dumpster diving with the stars
Ellis, Helen.Essays
Ellis, Helen.Fitter
Ellis, Helen.Hello! Welcome to the book club
Ellis, Helen.How to be a grown-ass lady
Ellis, Helen.How to be a patron of the arts
Ellis, Helen.Pageant protection
Ellis, Helen.Wainscoting war
Ellis, Helen.What I do all day
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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.
A collection of stories featuring conventional, if ruthless, housewives features a rigged reality television show, a unique book club initiation ritual, and the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop.
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Women
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