INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a series on Starz Brilliantly written.
The story of a young woman\'s coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York\'s most elite restaurants, in Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the food industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young and adrift..
What follows is her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen.
Outstanding.-- The New York Times Book Review Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. . . .
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a series on Starz Brilliantly written
