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Author Miller, Mary, 1977- author.

Title Always happy hour : stories / Mary Miller.

Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION MILLER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F MILLER MARY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F MILLER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F MILLER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F MILLER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MILLER, M    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MILLER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  MILLER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MILLER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-MILLER    Check Shelf
Edition First Edition.
Description 244 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "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
Contents Instructions -- The house on Main Street -- Proper order -- At one time this was the longest covered walkway in the world -- Big bad love -- Uphill -- Dirty -- He says I am a little oven -- Where all of the beautiful people go -- Love apples -- Hamilton pool -- Always happy hour -- Little bear -- First class -- Charts -- The 37.
Subject Young women -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- Texas -- Austin.
Short Stories.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
Young women. (OCoLC)fst01183301
Genre/Form Short stories.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
Short stories, American.
Short stories.
Added Title Short stories. Selections
ISBN 9781631492181 (hardcover) : $24.95
1631492187 (hardcover) : $24.95
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