{"product_id":"9780385548205","title":"Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage","description":"\u003cb\u003eEven twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author paints a portrait of true romance for our times in these surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ellis is one of our greatest living humorists, in the same league as Sedaris and Irby...A fascinating portrait of middle-aged love.” —Ann Napolitano, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDear Edward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome 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 500-piece jigsaw of a beheaded priest, and guests don blindfolds for a raucous bridal shower.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the pandemic shuts down the city, the Coral Lounge becomes a place of refuge, where Helen and her husband binge-watch Joan Collins’s \u003ci\u003eDynasty\u003c\/i\u003e, dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even twenty years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter patter.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917829226736,"sku":"9780385548205","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385548205_p0.jpg?v=1763694997","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385548205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}