Drinking With men

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	921 Schaap, Rosie	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

"A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars. Rosie Schaap has always loved bars: the wood and brass and jukeboxes, the knowing bartenders, and especially the sometimes surprising but always comforting company of regulars. Starting with her misspent youth in the bar car of a regional railroad, where at fifteen she told commuters' fortunes in exchange for beer, and continuing today as she slings cocktails at a neighborhood joint in Brooklyn, Schaap has learned her way around both sides of a bar and come to realize how powerful the fellowship among regular patrons can be. In Drinking with Men, Schaap shares her unending quest for the perfect local haunt, which takes her from a dive outside Los Angeles to a Dublin pub full of poets, and from small-town New England taverns to a character-filled bar in Manhattan's TriBeCa. Drinking alongside artists and expats, ironworkers and soccer fanatics, she finds these places offer a safe haven, a respite, and a place to feel most like herself. In rich, colorful prose, Schaap brings to life these seedy, warm, and wonderful rooms. Drinking with Men is a love letter to the bars, pubs, and taverns that have been Schaap's refuge, and a celebration of the uniquely civilizing source of community that is bar culture at its best"-- Provided by publisher.
"An honest, irreverent, chronological account of a woman forging her identity in bars, an almost exclusively male world, while living in New York, Dublin, and Montreal, among other locales"-- Provided by publisher.

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Witty, Smart, Moving submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 20, 2020, 12:02pm Drinking with Men is a gorgeously written, touching, a splendid memoir about finding community and family. At first glance, it's just a warm book about Rosie drinking at bars with men, and more than excellent on that level alone. Nevertheless, there's much more here. On a more profound level, this is the story of any of us ---with our hopes and aspirations and fears and grief - our need to be with others: who and how.