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Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler
★★★★· Published 2016· 356 pages
A young woman falls into the world of an upscale New York restaurant — the wine, the drugs, the exhaustion. Danler makes you taste all of it.
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Women start a secret club devoted to eating enormous meals and taking up space. Feral and fun.
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Bourdain's longtime assistant on the food world's hypermasculine underbelly, her own addictions and affairs, and clawing her way to sober. Candid, funny, and genuinely devastating.
★ 5Search
Michelle Huneven
A church committee searching for a new minister, with recipes. Huneven makes small-group politics weirdly gripping and funny. Loved it.