num_pages: 356
description: Newly arrived in New York City twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job as a backwaiter at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. What follows is the story of 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. As her appetites awakenfor food and wine but also for knowledge experience and belongingTess finds herself helplessly drawn into a darkly alluring love triangle. In Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler deftly conjures with heart-stopping accuracy the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the restaurant industry and evokes the infinite possibilities the unbearable beauty and the fragility and brutality of being young in New York.
language: English
title: Sweetbitter
publisher: Knopf