Monday, October 12, 2020

Ten books set in bars

Preety Sidhu, an intern at Electric Literature, tagged ten books to tide you over until cocktail lounges and local pubs are safe again, including:
Ordinary Hazards by Anna Bruno

Bruno’s debut novel follows Emma, a hedge fund manager and MBA professor with a passion for story structure, as she sits in her local bar in upstate New York, drinking whiskey and descending hour by hour through her grief and guilt about the recent breakdown of her marriage. Why is she here when she has to be up before the markets open, or even upstate at all instead of on Wall Street? Why do her friends keep texting, trying to get her to come over? How far will she go to punish one of her ex’s friends who confronts her at the bar that night, and what will it cost him? How has Emma’s story become so broken?
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue