Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage

The older I get the more I appreciate American Housewife author Ellis, whose frank, sharp stories have long made me guffaw and gasp (Did she really say that?). This collection covers a lot of ground—her husband’s snoring, Viagra-fueled sex, decorating, plants, poker—but is ultimately about her longtime marriage to her husband Lex and their life together on the Upper East Side, quite a change from the Alabama of her birth. Once again, Ellis proves eminently quotable (try this: “I want to live like a 1980s TV villainess.”) A varied, delightful, and spicy compendium. For fans of Elizabeth Passarella’s Good Apple and Jenny Lawson’s Broken (in the Best Possible Way).