Stray is about being raised by two and my mother was a, was an alcoholic and a single mother. And so my grandmother was the first person who saw beyond the trouble i was causing to see that it might be indicative of some greater sense ity that should be nurtured and not disciplined. I hadn't one teacher in high school who encouraged me to apply to the college that i ended up getting into. There was definitely a lot of kindness of strangers. But no one is telling a teen aged girl with a tongue piercing who stays out all night and goes raves that she's going to be a writer some day.
Stephanie Danler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the international bestseller, Sweetbitter, and the creator and executive producer of the Sweetbitter TV series on Starz. The book and series were based on her own experience being swept up by the intoxication of the New York City restaurant scene in her twenties. Danler's work has appeared in the Sewanee Review, Vogue, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. Her new memoir, Stray, (https://amzn.to/361FOpf) is a powerful reflection on the relationships, addictions, moments of awakening, revelation, and connection that defined her earlier life and shaped the person, the partner, the mother, and the writer she would become.
You can find Stephanie Danler at:
Website : http://www.stephaniedanler.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/smdanler/
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