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You will establish a palate. A palate is an area on your tongue where you keep in mind. Where you assign words to the textures of flavour. Eating becomes a discipline, language-obsessed. You will never simply eat food again. These are what that add us to Tess, the 22-year-old narrator of Sweetbitter - and you will never again listen to a debut coming-of-age book as beautiful as this one. Shot from a mundane, provincial past, Tess comes to NY in the stifling summer season of 2006. Together, knowing no one, residing in a rented room in Williamsburg, she manages to land a job as a backwaiter at a famous downtown Manhattan restaurant. This starts the entire year we spend with Tess as she starts to find their way the chaotic, enchanting, punishing, and privileged life she's chosen as well as the remorseless and luminous city around her. What follows is her education: in oysters, champagne, the appellations of Burgundy, friendship, cocaine, lust, love, and dive pubs. As her appetites awaken - for food and wines also for knowledge, experience, and owed - we see her helplessly attracted into a darkly appealing love triangle. With an orphan's ardor, she latches to Simone, a older server at the restaurant who have lived in ways Tess only dreams of, and resistant to the warnings of coworkers she comes under the spell of Jake, the elusive, tatted up, achingly beautiful bartender. Both of these and their enigmatic connection to the other person will end up being Tess' most exhilarating and painful lesson of all. Stephanie Danler intimately defines the crucial move from young lady to female, from residing in a location that feels like nowhere to residing in a location that feels like the guts of the world. She deftly conjures the nonstop and strictly adrenalized world of the restaurant - conversations interrupted, phrases overheard, interactions only partially revealed. And she evokes the infinite choices, the unbearable beauty, the fragility and brutality to be young in NY with heart-stopping correctness. A lush book of the senses - of flavour and hunger, finding and understanding, love and desire - Sweetbitter is eventually about the power of what remains after disillusionment and the transformation and wisdom that come from our activities, nice and bitter.
