'Sweetbitter' will make a lot of people hungry. Tess didn't actually want to be a waitress. She wanted to escape her provincial background, dive into the big city, and finally discover what she was meant for. But then she ends up in a fancy New York restaurant, and it's like entering a new universe with its own rules and laws, where the wrong wine at the wrong moment can be disastrous. Or where ignorance of the uniqueness of an oyster can lead to trouble. Sweetbitter is a great novel about pleasure and obsession - about how sometimes you have to be obsessed to truly enjoy. A raw, unvarnished, biting, wild love story.