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Wine Girl: The Trials and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier

An affecting memoir from Victoria James, America’s youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world . . . 

Exhilarating and inspiring, Wine Girl is the memoir of a young woman breaking free from a traumatic childhood and abuse on her own terms; an ethnography of the glittering, high-octane, but notoriously corrosive restaurant industry, and, above all, a love letter to the life-changing effects of good wine and good hospitality. 

"James does for wine what Anthony Bourdain did for the high-pressure, low-margin world of professional restaurants." -- Financial Times