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Synopsis of happy hour marlowe granados5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() By night, they weave from Brooklyn to the Upper East Side to the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, tech entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. By day, the girls sell clothes in a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. In her diary, Isa describes a sweltering summer in the glittering city. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blonde Gala Novak. ![]() Isa Epley is all of 21 years old and already 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. With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibility of a golden-age Hollywood heroine, Marlowe Granados’ stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City. Marlowe Granados is a fresh, exciting new voice in fiction, and Happy Hour is a spellbinding début.” (Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together and Every Little Piece of Me ) “ Happy Hour feels like a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it’s too hot to sleep. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.” (Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People ) “A wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who’s got the world wrapped around her finger. ![]()
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Brother david chariandy review5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Chariandy tenderly expresses to his daughter the African- and Indian-Trinidadian and English Protestant origins of her parents while eking out his own sense of belonging in Canada-amid his own painful life experiences and his parents’ toil in their adopted homeland. In a series of four chapters, ranging from the sharp “Incident” to the grounding “Arrival,” I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You is both response and fatherly instruction. Aptly timed for the sesquicentennial, this is the third book written by Chariandy, who debuted with Soucouyant in 2007, followed by Brother, which won the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. ![]() ![]() I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, a touching letter to his daughter by the award-winning writer David Chariandy, is a book that speaks to third-generation children growing up in a very different Canada than the one in which their grandparents arrived. ![]() McClelland & Stewart (Penguin Random House), $19.95 I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter ![]()
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The witch king edgmon5/31/2023 ![]() In fanfiction, characters can be whatever you decide they are. So, I retreated into fandoms for a big part of my life. I have multiple marginalized identities that take place at different intersections, and when I grew up, I never saw myself reflected in mainstream media, whether that was published books or TV shows. The big factor that pushed me to finally write this book was fanfiction. I’ll open with the single most cliché thing: what inspired The Witch King? ![]() |