![]() ![]() ![]() A New York neighborhood is “tourist-addled” a takeout lunch consists of “high-saline ramen” the San Francisco restaurants where she dines with a CEO friend are “full of natural fibers and acacia accents, unobtrusive flora and barre-body waitresses in linen shifts couples in their thirties and forties, the women wearing sturdy ankle boots and understated engagement rings, the men dressed, typically, to traverse a glacier.” As that last quote demonstrates, Wiener lavishes her most meticulous observational powers on the many older (and sometimes younger) people she views as enviably sure of themselves and their place in the world. She is a born noticer, with a novelist’s knack for selecting evocative detail and compacting it into neatly turned sentences. Wiener was, in other words, exactly the sort of curious, creative, dreamy twentysomething whom San Francisco, with its myriad subcultures and quasi-amateur arts scene, once seemed purpose-built to nurture. ![]()
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