Wine People
A Novel
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Wine People
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Narrated by:
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Christine Lakin
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By:
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Michelle Wildgen
About this listen
A Time Magazine “25 New Books You Need to Read This Summer”
“A riveting, behind-the-scenes portrait of a high-drama industry, from the chateau to the corner office…pour a glass and dive in.”—Oprah Daily
An intoxicating escape into the cutthroat world of wine and the complicated terrain of women’s friendship.
Wren and Thessaly collide when they land coveted jobs at a glamorous New York City boutique wine importer. Hardworking, by-the-book Wren comes from a modest background and has everything to prove, while Thessaly hails from a family of prestigious California growers—but she is plagued by self-doubt. Thrown together at work, where they’re expected to have exquisite palates, endless tolerance for alcohol and socializing, and the ability to sell, sell, sell, they regard each other with suspicion.
It’s only on an important European business trip—with everything on the line for both of them—that they unexpectedly forge an alliance that will change the course of their careers and personal lives.
With mouth-watering descriptions of food and wine, Wine People takes listeners from France, Germany, and Italy to the Midwest and California wine country, in an utterly entertaining story.
©2023 Michelle Wildgen (P)2023 Zibby PublishingCritic Reviews
"So intoxicatingly real and so, so smart and moving, Wildgen’s novel plumbs the depths of female friendship through the lives of two indelible characters: outsider Wren and golden girl Thessaly, who both enter the wine business as young women, fiercely bond, and then go into business together. Grappling with who they really were and who they now are meant to be, both together and apart, this is a stunner about ambition, love, and family. Wine connoisseurs, foodies, and literature lovers will be enraptured." —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You
“Wildgen beautifully captures the shifting feelings and perspectives of a long friendship evolving over time, even as she illuminates a little-known corner of wine culture. An intriguing read!” —Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever and Natural History
"An intoxicating story of friendship, workplace politics, entrepreneurship, and, of course, the elixir of the Gods, Wine People is all the wine metaphors and then some. Savor it.” —Elisa Albert, author of Human Blues