Stephanie Danler
1) Sweetbitter
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
NATIONAL BEST SELLER ""Sweetbitter"is a stunning debut novel, one that seems destined to help define a generation." Jay McInerney A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, seductive world of a famous New York City restaurant.""""Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge..."" This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
From the author of Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability...