Beverly Sutphin is a seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code.

As the wife of upwardly-mobile New York lawyer Jonathan Balser, Tina is expected to fulfill his notion of the "perfect" hostess, gourmet cook, lover, and mother of their children. Jonathan is a man with an over-inflated view of himself, obsessed with his image and social status. His increasing demands upon Tina drive her to an affair with a young writer. But Tina soon learns that she cannot rely on any man to fill the emptiness she feels. Tina, like...

Hoping for a chance at meaningful work away from his status-obsessed wife, New York executive Charlie visits West Virginia to oversee a mining project and finds a friendship with Natty, who longs to escape her own unfulfilling existence.

Four privileged, bored L.A. housewives make a pact that each will have a year-long extramarital affair. Each others' husbands are off-limits, and they agree to confide only in each other (assuming that dalliances cause trouble because word gets out). And so they embark--two eagerly, one cautiously, and one very reluctantly--on perilous romantic paths that lead to all manner of adventure and intrigue. As the year progresses, secrets are revealed, betrayals...

What happens when your not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life and changes everything? Mormon housewife Becky Jack--seven months pregnant with her fourth child--is about to find out when she meets celebrity hearththrob Felix Callahan.

Rita and Harry are well-to-do New Yorkers with two grown children and every reason to be content. But Rita despairs over the triviality of her life and has to come to grips with the loss of her mother. She begins to renew her love for Harry, ultimately declaring peace with her family and herself.

"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants."--