"Welcome to the Coral Lounge, a room in Helen Ellis's New York City apartment painted such an exuberant shade that a peeping Tom left a sticky note asking for the color. It is in the Coral Lounge where all the parties happen: a game called 'What's in the box?' makes its uproarious debut; the Puzzle Posse pounces on a five-hundred-piece jigsaw of a beheaded priest; and guests don blindfolds for a raucous bridal shower. When the pandemic shuts down the city, the Coral Lounge becomes a place of refuge, where Helen and her husband binge-watch Joan Collins's Dynasty and dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even twenty years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter-patter. In these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays, Helen Ellis paints a portrait of true romance for our times"--Dust jacket flap.
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