For Joanna Eberhart, moving to Stepford with her husband and children feels like the perfect fresh start. The lawns are pristine, the houses flawless, the wives impossibly polished. But beneath the idyllic surface, something is very wrong.
As Joanna settles in, she notices unsettling patterns. The women of Stepford seem strangely compliant, devoted to spotless homes and perfect appearances, their ambitions erased. Her questions are brushed aside, her suspicions dismissed. Yet the more she digs, the clearer it becomes: perfection has a terrifying price.
From Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby and The Boys from Brazil, The Stepford Wives is both a masterwork of psychological suspense and a razor-sharp critique of conformity. Some utopias hide nightmares. Stepford hides them in plain sight.
