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Book of the Month: American Housewife by Helen Ellis
Synopsis
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 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 Goo Goo Cluster, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood.
Book Club Reading Discussion Schedule
The dates listed below are the days we will be posting discussion questions in the Facebook group. On those dates, we will be talking about the pages listed.
Monday, December 4: Pages 1-69
Monday, December 11: Pages 73-113
Monday, December 18: Pages 117-145
Tuesday, December 26: Pages 149-end
We hope you enjoy American Housewife and get to discuss with us in our book club this month!
