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By: Stephanie Danler

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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages356
  • Published2016
  • File size1.4 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9781101875940

Key ideas from the book

  • Tess's restaurant job becomes an education in food, wine, and the demands of the industry.
  • The story follows her search for knowledge, experience, and a sense of belonging.
  • Tess navigates love and lust, including a darkly alluring love triangle.
  • The novel evokes the beauty and difficulty of being young in New York City.
  • Readers get a close look at the contrast between fine dining rooms and dive bars.

About Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess takes a job as a backwaiter at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. Her work becomes an education in the rhythms and pressures of restaurant life, alongside champagne, cocaine, love, lust, and the pursuit of belonging.

As Tess's appetite grows for food, knowledge, and experience, she is drawn into a love triangle. Set amid the contrast between dive bars and fine dining rooms, Sweetbitter explores the possibilities and hardships of being young in New York. It will appeal to readers of contemporary literary fiction, coming-of-age stories, and novels centered on food and restaurant culture.

About Stephanie Danler

Stephanie Danler is an American novelist and essayist best known for *Sweetbitter*, her debut novel about a young woman finding her footing in New York’s restaurant world. Drawing on the intensity of service work, the book explores appetite, ambition, and the search for belonging. It was adapted as a television series. Danler later wrote *Stray*, a memoir that turns to family, addiction, and the lasting effects of childhood. Her work often examines how desire and personal history shape the…

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