Poor Bob House. A private investigator with nothing to investigate, he's nearly out of options. His business associates are drunks and perverts and even his shell-shocked drinking buddies won't bother him. He needs to get lucky quickly. It's 1978 and times are tough in the Motor City. Now, even the bodies of dead children start to seem like good news to him. A crime novel set in the Detroit of the late 1970s, Happy Hour marks the literary debut of a deeply original voice in American letters. To read this book is to be transported back to a unforgettable time and place, decadent and despairing, and profoundly relevant for present day America.