Always Happy Hour: Stories (Hardcover)

from nancyjean19

There have been a few books I've read in my life where I feel like I'm from the same world as the characters. Once was when I read a book starring a bassoon player, like me. Then there was this one: writer types from the south, who went through an early divorce. It's kind of a weird experience to...

from Jan.Coco.Day

If Mary Miller's last novel The Last Days of California was a love letter to adolescence, her latest work is a series of love letters to arrested development--letters never sent, pushed to the back of the desk drawer--unread, but not forgotten.

from Hagelstein

A collection of pitch-perfect stories about women seeking and rejecting love, fittingly dedicated to Miller's “exes.” They are as lost and confused as everyone else (more so in some cases) and aren't afraid to admit it, at least in short bursts. They are at once self-aware, vulnerable, intelligen...

from Beamis12

3.5 the stories in this collection explore the unsatisfying relationships and friendships in which the women are involved. They all want love, in more than one story the woman laments that though she listens and asks questions of her boyfriend, he seems to have little interest in her own feelings...

from chrisblocker

Mary Miller offers a brutal and honest look at one breed of contemporary young women in her collection, Always Happy Hour. With stark consideration, Miller pulls the veil back from these seemingly rough women and shows us the pain beneath the surface. These are stories that do not shy away from "...