Happy Hour is a novel about getting by and looking great in a system that wants you to do neither. With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning. 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. Buy a cheap copy of Happy Hour book by Marlowe Granados. 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 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, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. It can be consumed at a voracious pace, and one could certainly enjoy it by the pool of a five-star hotel one has not paid a single cent to stay in. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. Happy Hour is a pleasurable book about repeated, small-scale scamming of the rich. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. Under Happy Hours glittering surface runs a witty tone of necessary critique, a fun hint of mockery, and the vital celebration of everyday joy. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time.

I found myself picturing this story as a graphic novel several times. Diary-style with no real plot still the characters and the ongoing quest for money and the next party are fascinating. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak. Happy Hour zooms along following the summer adventures of Isa and Gala in NYC. 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 Granadoss stunning dbut brilliantly captures a summer of striving.

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