By day, they make ends meet selling clothes on consignment. By night, Isa Epley and her friend Gala Novak rub shoulders with celebrities and intellectuals. 'In Granados’s amusingly mischievous debut, a young ingenue comes to New York City from London for a summer, seeking to bury her grief over her mother’s death. “ Happy Hour is less a conventional coming-of-age story and more a flâneuse adventure … unique for portraying young women having fun without looming threats of moral or mortal punishment.” Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation It’s so much fun, a swig of a very cold martini on a balmy evening.' ' Happy Hour is such a wonderful, hilarious, pleasurably exhausting reminder of what it is to be young in a big city. Hamrah, author of The Earth Dies Streaming ' Happy Hour is filled with charm, memorable insight, and witty aperçus, adding up to the realization that life, while unfair, is antic enough to be worth all the trouble.' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind Happy Hour is aptly titled-it’s an intoxicating book, at once heartbreaking and joyful.' '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. 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.

Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and having fun in a system that wants you to do neither. Through it all, Isa’s bold, beguiling voice captures the precise thrill of cultivating a life of glamour and intrigue as she juggles paying her dues with skipping out on the bill. Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. By night, they weave between Brooklyn, the Upper East Side, and the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them.īy day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York” (Rachel Syme, The New Yorker). With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ingénue in the big city is “as refreshing as gin fizz.

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