Read more from her interview with The Next Chapter. Marlowe Granados' short story 'Happy Hour' tells the tale of two young women, Ophelia and Emily, who work together at a start-up in New York City. And they like to look at them, which is, I think, quite refreshing and nice.' 'They're always drawn to them and they can map out how their attraction works. 'But it is also an important exercise to show that these girls do desire men in a certain way. What's interesting to me is how women create their own lives and narratives. That's more important than having these long-term flirtations or romances. What I also wanted to show about women's friendship is their journey - and the way that they are little adventurers. 'What's interesting to me is how women create their own lives and narratives. Marlowe Granados's novel Happy Hour is about naked ambition and being the life of the party.Marlowe Granados is a writer and filmmaker based in Toronto. A cri de cœur for party girls and anyone who has ever felt entitled to an adventure of their own, Happy Hour is an effervescent tonic for the ails of contemporary life.

Happy Hour announces a dazzling new talent in Marlowe Granados, whose exquisite wit recalls Anita Loos's 1925 classic, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, updated to evoke a recent, golden period of hope and transformation. 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. Money runs ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert their social capital into something more lasting.

By day, Isa and her best friend, Gala, sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches.īy night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, and bad-mannered grifters. In her diary she chronicles her New York City adventure during the sweltering summer of 2013. Isa Epley is twenty-one years old and 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.

Happy hour by marlowe granados