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Learn moreWesley Straton's The Bartender's Cure is a fiercely relatable debut novel about an aspiring bartender at the perfect neighborhood bar, filled with cocktail recipes and bartending tips and tricks.
Samantha Fisher definitely does not want to be a bartender. But after a breakup and breakdown in San Francisco, she decides to defer law school for a year to move to New York, crashing on her best friendās couch. When she is offered a job at Joeās Apothecary, a beloved neighborhood bar in Brooklyn, she tells herself itās only temporary.
As Sam learns more about bartending and gets to know the service industry lifers and loyal regulars at Joeās, she is increasingly seduced by her new job. She finds acceptance in her tight-knit community and even begins a new relationship. But as the year draws to a close, Sam is increasingly pulled between the life she thought she wanted and the possibility of a different kind of future. When destructive cycles from her past threaten to consume her again, Sam must decide how much sheās willing to let go of to finally belong.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
Wesley Straton is a writer and bartender based in Brooklyn. She writes fiction about found families, alienation, and how where we live shapes who we are. She studied fiction at Brooklyn College, where she received the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award and served as an editor for the Brooklyn Review. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train and has been shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize, and she has written about international bar culture for Roads & Kingdoms, GQ, and Diffordās Guide. The Bartenderās Cure is her debut.
Reviews
āLike a finely crafted cocktail, this novelās brilliance exists in its perfect balance of sweetness, sourness, saltiness, and strength. As much a love letter to the service industry as it is a coming-of-age story, Stratonās rendering of Brooklyn bars and found families will leave you yearning for your favorite local. Shake this triumphant debut with ice and strain into a chilled coupe. No garnish necessary.ā
āCamille Perri, author of When Katie Met Cassidy and The Assistants
āThe Bartenderās Cure is an evocative coming-of-age story and captivating glimpse into the world of bartending and cocktail lore. Wesley Stratonās prose is simultaneously restrained and dazzling, and protagonist Samantha Fisher is tough yet tender, singular yet familiar. This is one book hangover I'm in no hurry to recover from.ā
āMargarita Montimore, author of Oona Out of Order
āA love letter to the school of life, this tender story about a dispirited San Francisco transplant looking for salvation on the Brooklyn cocktail scene is ambrosial and spikedāyouāll drink the words right up.ā
āCourtney Maum, author of Touch and Costalegre