Sweetbitter: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Danler’s sexy, astute debut is really a love story about the addictive pull of restaurant life…and nailed it.”

  — People

• 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

• Brilliantly written… Sweetbitter is the Kitchen Confidential of our time.

  — New York Times Book Review

• “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

• … 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   

• ...a raw, shucked, pungent, wild love story.

  — Marie Claire 

• "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

• “Danler’s ravishing debut is like inhabiting the heady after-midnight hours of a city drunk on its own charms.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “A raw, shucked, pungent, wild love story.”

  — Marie Claire

• “Danler evokes Tess’ voice—intimate, confiding, wonderstruck, depressed—with deft skill. This novel is a treat.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “An unpretentious, truth-dealing novel…about hunger of every variety.”

  — New York Times

• “A total immersion in what it’s like to be young and hungry.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Lush and precise writing about food, drugs, and dives.”

  — New York magazine

• “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

• “Danler…is unafraid to give us a protagonist whose drive can be monstrous.”

  — Newsday