Happy Hour: A Novel

"A manifesto for party girls everywhere, Marlowe Granados’ debut novel, Happy Hour, glistens and charms. It’s 2013, and Isa and Gala are in New York bopping around with starlets and It Girls, scrounging up cash to fund their summer of good outfits, chance run-ins and exclusive parties. Granados’ prose is painless and quick, her characters glamorous and assured in a city that unfolds to them at their every turn. In Granados’ world, beauty isn’t frivolous or even fleeting – it’s the truth of youth, the thrum of the city, the luxury of life."