Can I Be Real? Reflections of a REAL Housewife shares the raw reality of the average housewife unlike the Real Housewives of Wherever reality television shows. By parting her curtains, author, LaVender S. Williams, reveals her shameless acts as a wife and mother. Women who work in the home and outside the home will reflect on their own reality as homemakers through this comical, thought-provoking, and REAL book.