“A dreamy account of one heady summer, Marlowe Granados’s début is a dispatch from another land not only New York City, but youth itself. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.” -Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People “ Happy Hour is a wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who’s got the world wrapped around her finger. If you are looking for romance, ambition, glamour, and a story about what it means to be young and striving in the city, this is your song of the summer.” -Rachel Syme, New Yorker staff writer It is a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York in 2013, and it evokes that time with such sparkling specificity that you can feel the heat coming off the pavement. “Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour is as refreshing as a gin fizz. She conveys frivolity without being frivolous, and describes the adventures and degradations of the lives of her characters with an intelligent distance and effervescence that is such a pleasure to read." -Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? "Marlowe Granados writes with a delicious joy and confidence. “Effervescent … Isa’s combination of naïveté, intelligence, and panache beguiles.” -New Yorker “Confident, charismatic and alive to the pleasure of observation, the voice Granados conjures in Happy Hour is a testament to the power of charm on the page.” - New York Times
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