Sweetbitter

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2016 by Stephanie Mannatt Danler All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Ltd., Toronto. www.aaknopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Dalkey Archive Press: Excerpt from Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson, copyright © 1986. Reprinted by permission of Dalkey Archive Press. Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC: Excerpt from “Lilacs in September” from The Mind-Body Problem: Poems by Katha Pollitt, copyright © 2009 by Katha Pollitt. Reprinted by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Danler, Stephanie, author. Title: Sweetbitter / Stephanie Danler. Description: First edition. | New York......