NEW ORLEANS (press release) – New York Times bestselling author Helen Ellis invites you to join her at The Garden District Book Shop June 20 as she dishes on her recently released book “Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage,” a portrait of true romance for our times told through surprising, sexy, and hilariously frank essays about love, marriage, and her last first kiss.
The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. and guests are invited to grab a seat with friends, sip on a glass of iced tea (spiked if desired) and nibble on Southern fare before Ellis sits down with fellow author Sue Strachan to swap stories and talk all things “Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge.” Afterwards, Ellis will be available to chat with guests and sign copies of her book.
The Coral Lounge is 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.
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, dote on two spoiled cats, and where Helen discovers that even 20 years into marriage, her husband still makes her heart pitter patter.
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