Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly
Selinger’s writing is just as irresistible as the allure of the restaurants that sucked her into their pull from the early to mid 2000s, which makes her clear-eyed rebukes of the industry that much more compelling ... Selinger writes thoughtfully about the nature of labor, especially the unseen variety behind a charismatic figurehead, and the dire personal sacrifices that too many jobs require of their workers.
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Howling ... Petty and mean ... Selinger opens her book pre-aggrieved. In fact, the book seems to have sprung like Zeus from the loins of titanic anger ... There’s a thin line between brutal honesty and glib brutality.
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Selinger’s vivid prose makes each chapter compulsively readable as she tells her story of life in restaurants.
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