Always Happy Hour - by Mary Miller (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Sleek, sexy, slyly funny." --Tom Franklin, author of <em>Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A "bracingly strong" (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>, starred review) collection brimming with savage Southern charm, <em>Always Happy Hour</em> propels Mary Miller to new heights. Claustrophobic and lonesome, acerbic and magnetic, her characters seek understanding in the most unlikely places--a dilapidated foster home where love is a liability, a trailer park laden with a history of bad decisions, and the empty corners of a dream home bought after a bitter divorce. "Full of wit, bite, and the boundless intelligence of their author" (Kevin Powers, author of <em>The Yellow Birds</em>), these stories evoke the particular gritty comfort found in bad habits as hope turns to dust, and they prove yet again Miller's essential role in American fiction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Deftly crafted.--Joyce Carol Oates "New York Review of Books"<br><br>Enjoyable...a meditation on the stories a person tells herself.--Hilary Moss "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>In Miller's new collection, a tipsy glow surrounds her Southern women as they trawl for cocktails, honk-tonk music, and men while nursing an inner ache they can't booze away. In lucid, vivid prose, Miller renders them alive to lust and, however improbably, to love.-- "O, The Oprah Magazine"<br><br>Readers will find themselves riveted...The 16 stories in this collection...feel both homey and exotic, limning lives at once familiar and distinctly their own. Like a two-for-one drink special or a boxful of beer, this bracingly strong collection may prove intoxicating.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"<br><br>Reading <em>Always Happy Hour</em> is like drinking an Old Fashioned. It's strong with a sweet burn, and after each taste you immediately want more. Reminiscent of Pam Houston's <em>Cowboys Are My Weakness</em>, Mary Miller writes well about sex, drugs and white bikinis.--Helen Ellis, author of American Housewife<br><br>Some of the women in this collection of short stories are spiraling; some are simply stuck. But they all have one thing in common: relationships in varying degrees of WTF? We can relate.-- "Cosmopolitan magazine"<br><br>Somewhere between the old trope of the fallen woman and the unctuousness of the likable heroine, the young narrators of Miller's searching stories inhabit the middle space known as reality. . . . Anyone who's faltered on the way to success and contentment might find solace in the do-gooder in "Big Bad Love," or the boozy, boyfriend-enabled composition teacher in the title story.--Boris Kachka "Vulture"<br><br>Stellar.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)"<br><br>Stories of self-defeat and loneliness, of bad decisions or maybe worse, the inability to make decisions. Stories of treading water--where you know you should move towards shore but instead you let yourself drift farther out. <em>Big World</em> introduced us to the power of Mary Miller's short stories, and <em>Always Happy Hour</em> solidifies her as a major voice in Southern Literature.--Willy Vlautin, author of The Free<br><br>Stunning.--Elizabeth Taylor "National Book Review"<br><br>Taken as a whole, this harrowing yet ultimately enjoyable collection is less about the conventions of storytelling--exposition, climax, denouement--and more of a meditation on the stories a person tells herself.--Martha Sheridan "Dallas Morning News"<br><br>The proximity to [Miller's] characters that her crystalline, unfiltered prose allows...will draw readers in immediately, and entirely.-- "Booklist (Starred Review)"<br><br>The stories in Mary Miller's <em>Always Happy Hour</em> are full of wit, bite, and the boundless intelligence of their author. This book is further evidence for what I felt after reading her brilliant debut novel, <em>The Last Days of California</em>, that Mary Miller is an astonishingly gifted writer. Her next one can't come soon enough.--Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds<br><br>Each of these stories has its own pulse. For anyone who's ever looked for love in all the wrong places, this shoebox full of beating hearts is for you.--Amelia Gray, author of Gutshot: Stories<br><br>I fell into this book like it was a night of drinking. I sipped, I laughed, I had some more, I got lonely, I danced a little, I downed the rest, I wanted to cry, I stayed up late closing it out and I'm a wreck and I regret nothing.--Daniel Handler, author of We Are Pirates and Why We Broke Up<br>
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