A review by itsgg
Sweetbitter, by Stephanie Danler

1.0

I chose this book because I heard the author interviewed on Fresh Air, so maybe I was expecting something a bit more literary. But it's your stereotypical coming-of-age novel about a young, naive girl who moves to The Big City (New York, because we need the cliché to be complete) and finds work in a well-known restaurant. I waitressed in high school and college so I at least appreciated the nostalgia about what it's like to work in food service, but that's about it. It's otherwise a predictable story that is not at all remarkable.