The Bartender’s Cure Is the Service Industry Novel We Needed

It’s an early summer night in Bushwick, and Wesley Straton is sitting across the bar from me. “It’s happy hour,” I tell her as she peruses a list of cocktails while I cut limes for garnish. I ask her things I’d ask anyone sitting in front of me at the bar at Sally Roots, the Caribbean-American restaurant and bar I started working at about a year ago: her hopes, her dreams, and whether or not she’d like a shot. Straton is sitting in the opposite position the narrator of her debut novel The Bartender’s Cure takes for much of the… Read Full Article