num_pages: 272
description: Samantha Fisher definitely does not want to be a bartender. But after a breakup and breakdown in San Francisco she decides to defer law school for a year to move to New York crashing on her best friends couch. When she is offered a job at Joes Apothecary a beloved neighborhood bar in Brooklyn she tells herself its only temporary.As Sam learns more about bartending and gets to know the service industry lifers and loyal regulars at Joes she is increasingly seduced by her new job. She finds acceptance in her tight-knit community and even begins a new relationship. But as the year draws to a close Sam is increasingly pulled between the life she thought she wanted and the possibility of a different kind of future. When destructive cycles from her past threaten to consume her again Sam must decide how much shes willing to let go of to finally belong.
language: English
title: The Bartender's Cure
publisher: Flatiron Books