20 Books to Pick Up This Month
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Always Happy Hour: Stories
By Mary Miller
256 pages;
Liveright
In Miller’s new collection, a tipsy glow surrounds her Southern women as they trawl for cocktails, honky-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.
— Dotun Akintoye and Hamilton Cain
Published 01/18/2017