Always happy hour
Subtitle: stories
By: Mary Miller
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781631492181
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Young women; Fiction; American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Acerbic and ruefully funny, [this book] weaves tales of young women-- deeply flawed and intensely real-- who struggle to get out of their own way.  They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars.  Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage-- whether it's a string of horrible exes, a boyfriend with an annoying child, or an inability to be genuinely happy for a best friend-- they are united in their unrelenting suspicion that they deserve better.  These women seek understanding in the most unlikely places: a dilapidated foster home where love is a liability in "Big Bad Love," a trailer park littered with a string of bad decisions in "Uphill," and the unfamiliar corners of a dream home purchased with the winnings of a bitter divorce settlement in "Charts."  Taking a microscope to delicate patterns of love and intimacy, Miller evokes the reticent love among the misunderstood, the gritty comfort in bad habits that can't be broken, and the beat-by-beat minutiae of fated relationships."--Amazon.com
Table of contents: title: Instructions --; title: The house on Main Street --; title: Proper order --; title: At one time this was the longest covered walkway in the world --; title: Big bad love --; title: Uphill --; title: Dirty --; title: He says I am a little oven --; title: Where all of the beautiful people go --; title: Love apples --; title: Hamilton pool --; title: Always happy hour --; title: Little bear --; title: First class --; title: Charts --; title: The 37.