Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their 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 from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, tech entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. They have little money, but that's hardly going to stop them from having a good time. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. Isa Epley is all of twenty-one years old and already 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 whip-smart, wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados's stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Hamrah, author of The Earth Dies Streaming They add up to the realization that life, while unfair, is antic enough to be worth all the trouble.' ' Happy Hour is filled with charm, memorable insight, and witty aperçus. –Amy Jones, author of We're All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me Marlowe Granados is a fresh, exciting new voice in fiction, and Happy Hour is a spellbinding début.' ' Happy Hour feels like a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it's too hot to sleep. –Rumaan Alam, author of Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother Happy Hour is aptly titled-it's an intoxicating little book, at once heartbreaking and joyful.' '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.

–Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People

So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.' '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.' 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.

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