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Make It Nice

What the Real Housewives and Mr. Rogers Taught Me About Being a Woman

by Erin Bestic

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Book cover with a gold medal illustration at the top, the title 'Make It Nice' in large letters, a subtitle 'What the Real Housewives and Mister Rogers Taught Me About Being a Woman,' and the author's name Erin Bestic at the bottom. The background features a gradient from maroon to gold with small gold dots.

Fred Rogers and the Real Housewives walk into a bar. This is that book.

Make It Nice is a sharp, funny, deeply researched argument that the Real Housewives franchise — twenty years, a dozen cities, hundreds of women — is one of the most complete cultural records of female experience on television. Using the unlikely lens of Fred Rogers, it examines what the franchise has been teaching us all along: about friendship, ambition, anger, love, grief, reinvention, and the radical act of wanting things out loud.

Rogers said you are special, exactly as you are. The Housewives said: and don't you forget it.

Make It Nice is for every woman who already knew both were right.