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From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan. Perfect for readers of Kitchen Confidential and...

Tess ankommer til storbyen i sin søgen efter et liv, hun endnu ikke kan definere, men hun har et brændende ønske om at blive til nogen og høre til et sted. Hun får et eftertragtet job som tjener på en eksklusiv restaurant på Union Square og opdager, at hun træder ind i en verden med et stærkt opdelt hierarki. Hun er så grøn, at hun aldrig har smagt en østers og må nu lære de forskellige arter, de rigtige betegnelser for Bourgognevine og at værdsætte at spise terrine af svinehoved.

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."