![]() Her insight into the transactional, transient nature of being a young woman in the city and, no less importantly, of party girl life, is joyously sultry, a celebration of decadent abandon in the face of distrustful men, precarious finances and unknown career paths. For the author, these are girls coming from a lineage of glamorous, rootless women – the socialites of the 1930s and 40s, screwball comedy stars, and Jean Rhys heroines.Īn advice columnist for The Baffler, as well as a podcaster and filmmaker, Granados is attuned to the complexities of social interactions and personal dilemmas. Best friends Isa, the story’s diarist narrator, and Gala arrive in the city for a season of scraping by they sublet a room cheaply, wrangle dinners paid for by other people, and sell vintage clothes at market stalls to fund their nights out. ![]() “People keep saying it’s the hot girl summer book,” says Marlowe Granados of her debut novel Happy Hour, a tale of the sticky, sweet heat of summer in New York City and girls living their best, champagne-soaked lives. ![]()
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