Marlowe Granados is a fresh, exciting new voice in fiction, and Happy Hour is a spellbinding début.” - Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me “ Happy Hour feels like a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it’s too hot to sleep. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.” - Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People

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.“A wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who’s got the world wrapped around her finger. 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. After spending time in New York and London, Granados currently resides in Toronto. She co-hosts The Mean Reds, a podcast dedicated to women-led films, and her advice column, 'Designs for Living,' appears in The Baffler. MARLOWE GRANADOS is a writer and filmmaker. A cri de cœur for party girls and anyone who has ever felt entitled to an adventure of their own, Happy Hour is an effervescent tonic for the ails of contemporary life. Happy Hour announces a dazzling new talent in Marlowe Granados, whose exquisite wit recalls Anita Loos's 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation. 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. Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, and bad-mannered grifters. By day, Isa and her best friend, Gala, sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. In her diary she chronicles her New York City adventure during the sweltering summer of 2013. Isa Epley is twenty-one years old and wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent.

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados's stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.

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