American Housewife EPUB

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 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 pre-war 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 Snicker, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood. 'I finished American Housewife three days ago, and I'm still in withdrawal.

I want to throw a cocktail party for Helen Ellis's beautiful, demented, touching heroines.

I'd ply them with gin and Jell-O salad, admire their brooches, and force them to give up their deepest secrets.

In other words, I wish I could read this exhilarating book all over again' Eliza Kennedy