Sweetbitter
SweetbitterStephanie Danler
Characters in Sweetbitter
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Tess
A twenty-two-year-old newcomer to New York who takes a job as a backwaiter and is transformed by a year inside a high-end restaurant.
Supporting characters
Simone
A glamorous, worldly senior server who becomes Tess's mentor, training her palate and her sense of the world.
Jake
A beautiful, remote bartender who becomes the object of Tess's obsession.
Dr. Howard
The restaurant's exacting general manager, presiding over the world Tess enters.