Book review: Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Happy Hour (2020) is Toronto-based writer and filmmaker Marlowe Granados’ debut novel, an unassuming and intoxicating book about two young, beautiful girls partying their lives away for one sweltering summer in New York City. Despite the emphasis on glamour, Happy Hour’s depth and nuance is evident in its protagonists’ view of the world. Isa and Gala have been partying together ever since they were underage; now 21 years old, the girls move to New York together with an agenda to do “absolutely nothing.” But it is in this nothingness that Granados’ writing really has a chance to shine.