It is a book that wisely lives in the moment and encourages us to do the same.”

“Under Happy Hour’s glittering surface runs a witty tone of necessary critique, a fun hint of mockery, and the vital celebration of everyday joy. “Happy Hour feel like both a time capsule of millennial life circa 2013 and a taste of what promises to be one of the most entertaining chroniclers of the particular social mores of a specific subset of Gen Y.” - Globe & Mail Its tone reminds me of early Edna O’Brien, with its worldly outlook, its wit - and its obvious smarts.” -Deborah Dundas, Toronto Star “ about being young, grabbing life by the tail and enjoying it to the full. Happy Hour is a spellbinding début.” -Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me Marlowe Granados writes sparkling prose with tenderness and unexpected depth. “ Happy Hour feels like a secret casually revealed in a hotel lobby bathroom as you fix your lipstick and a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it’s too hot to sleep. perfectly sums up a new age of innocence.” - Publishers Weekly starred review Hamrah, author of The Earth Dies Streaming

“ Happy Hour is filled with charm, memorable insight, and witty aperçus, adding up to the realization that life, while unfair, is antic enough to be worth all the trouble.” -A. Happy Hour is aptly titled-it’s an intoxicating little book, at once heartbreaking and joyful.” -Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind, Rich and Pretty, and That Kind of Mother “A dreamy account of one heady summer, Marlowe Granados’s début is a dispatch from another land not only New York City, but youth itself. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.” -Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People “ Happy Hour is 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.” -Rachel Syme, New Yorker staff writer

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. She conveys frivolity without being frivolous, and describes the adventures and degradations of the lives of her characters with an intelligent distance and effervescence that is such a pleasure to read.' -Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? 'Marlowe Granados writes with a delicious joy and confidence. “Effervescent … Isa’s combination of naïveté, intelligence, and panache beguiles.” -New Yorker “Confident, charismatic and alive to the pleasure of observation, the voice Granados conjures in Happy Hour is a testament to the power of charm on the page.” - New York Times

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