American Housewife

"This delightfully zany book of short stories is Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck with a Southern drawl and a dark sense of humor. Novelist Helen Ellis took a long hiatus from writing, but her time as a “housewife” (her words) provided plenty of fodder. In this collection, Ellis turns her sharp wit on dinner parties, dishwashers, book clubs and passive-aggressive neighbors. The result is funnier — and far more sinister — than you might expect."