Three Slow Burn Novels For the Fall: A Fictional Account of 12 Century Poet Marie de France, a murder-mystery, and Happy Hour, a Debut Novel about 2 Young Women Navigating a Hot NYC Summer

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ADVERTISEMENT Happy Hour, the debut novel by Marlowe Granados, follows Isa and Gala, two best friends in their early 20s, as they survive a sweltering summer in N.Y.C. through their feminine wiles and too many hot dogs. Isa is hot off a stint in London and has found herself in the Big Apple running a clothing stall with Gala.

Granados manages to capture an airy and effortless tone and her prose sparkles with dry wit on every page. However, the story meanders, and it’s perhaps too bogged down by stereotypical millennial navel-gazing to truly work as a sharp satire.

Groff’s Marie is headstrong and scrappy. She’s also, according to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, poor, illegitimate, and “odd.” As such, she’s cast out of the royal court at 17 and tasked with running a ramshackle abbey full of nuns who are, much like Marie, outcasts. As she adjusts to her new life, she turns the impoverished nunnery into a powerful, self-sustaining environment—and along the way, she and an eccentric cast of nuns come into their own spiritually and creatively.

A Slow Fire Burning is more than just a classic murder mystery tale. It’s a grim portrait of grief, deceit, and trauma that readers won’t soon forget. –sydney jackson Tags: Marlowe Granados , Lauren Groff , Paula Hawkins , Marlowe , Lauren , Paula , Non-Fiction , Fiction , Poesy , Biography

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