- 290 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
"Charming, manic, and delicious. A caffeinated valentine from a New York already gone, but certainly not forgotten. I drank it right up." āGary Shteyngart,
New York Timesābestselling author
Light streams through the windows as the espresso machine roars; a gorgeous, rich scent fills the air; and witty conversation unspools over the porcelain cups.
That's the cafĆ© dream. Mark and Nina are about to experience the reality. Determined to re-create the perfect Viennese coffeehouse, they descend on New York's gritty but hip Lower East Side to educate the locals on authentic cafĆ© culture. Soon Mark and Nina are in a downward spiral that will strip them of money, friends, sex life, status, shelter, and, finally, sanityāand offer salvation through something they have never experienced: disaster.
Inspired by the author's own coffeehouse hell, Ground Up is a sharp and funny portrait of a New York constantly reinventing itself, and a surprisingly tender story of falling out of love and back in it again.
"Every quotable sentence in Michael Idov's brilliantly funny first novel induced in this reader awe and jealousy. Ground Up's narrator is a voice and sensibility I'd follow into any story, any neighborhood. There's talent here of the Nabokovian kind, wresting truth, love, and mordant wit from delightfully misguided dreams. I loved every word." āElinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry
"A fiercely funny yet frequently touching novel about the nightmare that the American dream can becomeĀ .Ā .Ā . strikes all the right chordsāboth cultural and emotionalĀ .Ā .Ā . Everything that can go wrong will, in a manner both hilarious (the coffeehouse) and poignant (the marriage)." ā Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Light streams through the windows as the espresso machine roars; a gorgeous, rich scent fills the air; and witty conversation unspools over the porcelain cups.
That's the cafĆ© dream. Mark and Nina are about to experience the reality. Determined to re-create the perfect Viennese coffeehouse, they descend on New York's gritty but hip Lower East Side to educate the locals on authentic cafĆ© culture. Soon Mark and Nina are in a downward spiral that will strip them of money, friends, sex life, status, shelter, and, finally, sanityāand offer salvation through something they have never experienced: disaster.
Inspired by the author's own coffeehouse hell, Ground Up is a sharp and funny portrait of a New York constantly reinventing itself, and a surprisingly tender story of falling out of love and back in it again.
"Every quotable sentence in Michael Idov's brilliantly funny first novel induced in this reader awe and jealousy. Ground Up's narrator is a voice and sensibility I'd follow into any story, any neighborhood. There's talent here of the Nabokovian kind, wresting truth, love, and mordant wit from delightfully misguided dreams. I loved every word." āElinor Lipman, author of Every Tom, Dick & Harry
"A fiercely funny yet frequently touching novel about the nightmare that the American dream can becomeĀ .Ā .Ā . strikes all the right chordsāboth cultural and emotionalĀ .Ā .Ā . Everything that can go wrong will, in a manner both hilarious (the coffeehouse) and poignant (the marriage)." ā Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About this Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Acknowledgments