![]() Large swaths of the read take place in Frances’ head. ![]() ![]() All the while, Frances continues to taxi children to and from school, take her best shot at parenting a high schooler and two other needy children and maintaining a sexless life with her dependable husband. Rumors and suspicions ooze through the upper middle-class Los Angeles neighborhood like slime, and even the tamest of marriages begin to toe fragility. In addition to finding the urgent project tools (toilet paper rolls), she finds her neighbor, Anne Porter, in the middle of an affair with a younger man.Ībbi Waxman’s “Other People’s Houses” follows the four families impacted by Anne’s fling. This changes the day Frances whips the car around to retrieve a kindergarten passenger’s forgotten school supplies. It also affords her snapshots of their mornings, which are typically less than scandalous. Her daily carpooling duty tethers her neighbors’ lives together. ![]() Frances Bloom can jam seven children into a minivan designed for six with no problem. ![]()
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