5/24/2023 0 Comments Happy hour marlowe granados![]() Happy Hour is ultimately about cheeky, frenzied frivolity and the value in living a life that’s derived from pleasure, from saying yes and trusting that living is enough. ![]() The novel is told from the perspective, through journal entries, of Isa, who talks like she’s in a Greta Garbo film, and who an old man would enjoy describing as a “spitfire.” Happy Hour isn’t about plot or character growth it’s not about achieving lofty goals, but is more a series of episodes chronicling the adventures and potent social observations of Isa and Gala as they get invited to parties by friends they vaguely know, saying yes to everything from a lecture by a French economic theorist to a Hamptons trip with a British aristocrat. ![]() ‘How do you know they’re not just gathering material?’” But making art isn’t the point it’s being at the opening at all: “The critic peered over his glass to take a good look at us. In one chapter, they visit a gallery show, and nobody can believe they’re not artists. But Isa and Gala aren’t in New York to become anything: They’re there to live and to pay attention. ![]() In a city that is all about social and economic capital, it’s a concept nobody can quite wrap their heads around, and they are constantly asked why they don’t have internships, or aren’t making art. In Marlowe Granados’ novel Happy Hour, 21-year-old best friends Isa and Gala move to New York City to do nothing for a summer. ![]()
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