Happy Hour – A Novel (Verso Fiction)

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 CityRefreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent.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.She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blond Gala Novak.They have little money, but that's hardly going to stop them from having a good time. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city.By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches.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.Resources run ever tighter and the