It will be published in the US & UK September 7, 2021, by Verso Books. Her debut novel Happy Hour is now available in Canada. She co-hosts The Mean Reds, a podcast dedicated to women-led films. Resources run 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 audi. Marlowe Granados is a writer and filmmaker based in Toronto. By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet 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.

Today, she releases her debut novel, Happy Hour: a glitzy coming-of-age saga about two friends navigating the singular experience of getting by in New York City. Features New Books Biggest New Books Fiction. Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados has an overall rating of Rave based on 7 book reviews. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. In the same year, Granados debuted her short film The Leaving Party, which follows the conversations among a group of friends over the course of one summer day. Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados has an overall rating of Rave based on 7 book reviews. 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 Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granadoss stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of.

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