An unnamed employee of a fencing company is being made foreman and has the responsibility over two other fence builders, Tam and Richie. The three of them have to redo a high-tension fencing job in England (they’re from Scotland) and go on their way in the company caravan. While working on that job an accident happens that is only the beginning of some very strange situations these men get themselves into.
Kate Stein is a housewife. Together with her husband Ben and her three children she lives in Upchurch, a little city in Connecticut with, so it seems, only perfect housewives. The problem is, she is not one of them. She can’t look sophisticated, doing the household, looking after the kids, have time for extracurricular activities all at the same time.
She is used to the lifestyle of New York where she has lived most of her life. First together with her parents, then together with her best friend Janie and even with Ben for a little while. But New York is no more and she is bored. What can happen to make her feel like an independent woman with her own life again? Well…a murder! One of the perfect wives is murdered under suspicious circumstances. Why should a normal housewife be killed and who did it? Kate is intrigued and determent to unravvel this mystery. Will she succeed together with Janie and her old flame Evan?
Just like in Me talk pretty one day Sedaris has bundled some of his (family) stories. Every aspect of family (life), discovering yourself and the ones around you, knowing how to handle your parents and siblings, is being investigated and written down in a hilarious, original and readable way.
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