American Housewife
Ratings10
Average rating3.6
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Ratings10
Average rating3.6
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle Meet the women of American 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?”
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This is a very indulgent collection of short stories in exactly the genre you'd expect if you've read the synopsis. Some of them are better-written than others and hence more enjoyable. Really, the only one I didn't enjoy is the first one, which is just fine because it's the shortest one. Most of the others are longer and more developed and truly fun to read. Definitely fluff, but nice fluff, if this is your sort of thing.
4.5 stars. Surprisingly, I enjoyed these short stories. Dark and wry and funny. Just goes to show that a Goodreads rating (3.3) should not dictate my TBR pile.
These are a small collection of perfectly sharp, short stories written by your most clever Tumblr friend. An escalating war on interior design, magical bra fitters, the novel sponsored by Tampax and a sadly, all-too-plausible reality show called Dumpster Diving with the Stars. A light bit of confection that was altogether a hoot to read.
