A review by gavmor
Always Happy Hour: Stories by Mary Miller

3.0

A sometimes-engrossing series of horrifically banal slices into the lives of several depressed women, this book at first feels almost like a white trash If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, but the only thing connecting one story to another is each protagonist's unwillingness to speak their true feelings to anyone around them. This is no surprise, since each is surrounded by a pantheon of stiffly patriarchal normies.

I believe that this book is realistic, and that makes me sad.