Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. 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.

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.

"Brilliantly written. . . . Outstanding."—The New York Times Book Review

Author: Stephanie Danler
Publisher: Vintage
Page Count: 356pp
Size: 5.5 x 8 x 1
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: May 2, 2017
ISBN: 978-1101911860