American Housewife [Paperback]

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Catchy, smart and very, very funny.” —The Washington Post 

Meet the women ofAmerican 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?”

“Darkly comic stories about, and for, ‘grown-ass’ ladies.” —People
 
 “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle 
 
“Satirical humor as twisted as screw-top bottles—and more effervescent than the stuff that pours out of them....Ellis is a master of the unhinged.” —Heller McAlpin, NPR 

 “Steeped in the Southern Gothic tradition. Flannery O’Connor would turn green with equal parts sick and envy.... Dark, deadpan and truly inventive.” —The New York Times Book Review 
 
“Delightful.... Ellis’s stories start in a place that’s quite familiar—the domestic sphere of New York City’s ritzy Upper East Side—and end in a place that’s decidedly not.” —Vogue.com

“The perfect cocktail of Amy Sedaris’s wacky wit and Margaret Atwood’s insight.” —Elle.com
 
“Catchy, smart and very, very funny. . . . The housewives in [American Housewife] share Ellis’s wry sensibility. But as comical as they are—and they are very—these women also have a sly depth.” —The Washington Postl3Ë