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“Danler’s sexy, astute debut is really a love story about the addictive pull of restaurant life…and nailed it.”
— People
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An unpretentious, truth-dealing novel… about hunger of every variety. Ms. Danler is a sensitive observer… and gifted commenter on many things. Sweetbitter is going to make a lot of people hungry.
— New York Times
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Brilliantly written… Sweetbitter is the Kitchen Confidential of our time.
— New York Times Book Review
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“It’s rare that a book conveys with such unerring precision what it’s like to be young.”
— Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author
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… perfectly captures the raw possibility of a young woman’s first year in New York, opening up to a whole new world of wine, food, love and heartbreak.
— Mackenzie Dawson, New York Post
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...a raw, shucked, pungent, wild love story.
— Marie Claire
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"Sweetbitter…dresses the bones of a classic coming-of-age story with the lusty flesh and blood of a bawdy early twenty-first-century picaresque.”
— Elle
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“Danler’s ravishing debut is like inhabiting the heady after-midnight hours of a city drunk on its own charms.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“A raw, shucked, pungent, wild love story.”
— Marie Claire
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“Danler evokes Tess’ voice—intimate, confiding, wonderstruck, depressed—with deft skill. This novel is a treat.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“An unpretentious, truth-dealing novel…about hunger of every variety.”
— New York Times
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“A total immersion in what it’s like to be young and hungry.”
— Boston Globe
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“Lush and precise writing about food, drugs, and dives.”
— New York magazine
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“Food and feeling are natural partners; this… is a feast of both. Like her sexual awakening, Tess’s culinary enlightenment is vivid and exquisite.”
— NPR.org
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“Danler…is unafraid to give us a protagonist whose drive can be monstrous.”
— Newsday