PRAISE FOR HAPPY HOUR

“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

“Effervescent … [the protagonist] Isa’s combination of navet, intelligence, and panache beguiles.”
—New Yorker

"Marlowe Granados writes with a delicious joy and confidence. 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?

“Granados’s amusingly mischievous debut . . . perfectly sums up a new age of innocence.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review

“[Happy Hour is] about being young, grabbing life by the tail and enjoying it to the full. . . . Its tone reminds me of early Edna O’Brien, with its worldly outlook, its wit — and its obvious smarts.”
—Deborah Dundas, Toronto Star

“Happy Hour feel[s] like both a time capsule of millennial life circa 2013 and a taste of what promises to be one of the most entertaining chroniclers of the particular social mores of a specific subset of Gen Y.”
—Globe and Mail

“Under Happy Hour’s glittering surface runs a witty tone of necessary critique, a fun hint of mockery, and the vital celebration of everyday joy. It is a book that wisely lives in the moment and encourages us to do the same.”
—Stacey May Fowles, Quill & Quire

“Marlowe Granados's Happy Hour is as refreshing as a gin fizz. 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. 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

“Happy Hour is a wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who’s got the world wrapped around her finger. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.”
—Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People

"A dreamy account of one heady summer, Marlowe Granados’s debut is a dispatch from another land; not only New York City, but youth itself. Happy Hour is aptly titled — it’s an intoxicating little book, at once heartbreaking and joyful."
—Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

“Like scrappier updates of the two little girls from Little Rock in Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (but not blondes), Isa and Gala arrive in contemporary Brooklyn as post-showgirl waifs, members of a savvy precariat with nothing to lose and everything to gain from their dealings with sophisticates, artists, writers, and wealthy hangers-on. Granados’s book is filled with charm, memorable insight, and witty aperus. They add up to the realization that life, while unfair, is antic enough to be worth all the trouble.”
—A. S. Hamrah, author of The Earth Dies Streaming

“Reading Happy Hour feels like summertime, like youth and freedom and everything that comes with it — the headiness and excitement, the anticipation, the undercurrent of sadness. It’s the secret casually revealed in a hotel lobby bathroom as you fix your lipstick; it’s the uncontrollable laughter in the back of a cab on the way home from a club; it’s the breathless whisper at six in the morning when it’s too hot to sleep. A sophisticated stylist, Marlowe Granados writes in prose that is sparkling and effervescent, shot through with tenderness and unexpected depth. She is a fresh, exciting new voice in fiction, and Happy Hour is a spellbinding debut.”
—Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me

PRAISE FOR MARLOWE GRANADOS

“I wish I could have read her advice when I was 23.”
—Emily Witt, New Yorker staff writer and author of Future Sex

“A sexy Cher Horowitz. If you want advice on how to kill someone or make a man cry, she’s the one.”
—Lauren Mitchell, host of the Cavern of Secrets podcast

“An adventurer.”
—Dazed Digital UK

“Keep your eye out for Marlowe’s work. I think she will do some great things. Already has.”
—David Mushegain, Fashion photographer, in The Last Magazine