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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce 212 pages




Love Me Back is a no holds barred look at a young woman named Marie who has worked as a waitress in low end restaurants and eventually winds up waiting tables at an exclusive steak restaurant in Dallas.

The timeline is mixed up throughout the book so there are sections which are difficult to piece together but Marie’s life is disrupted after she marries and has a daughter. We never learn too much about her motivations, but Marie leaves them and goes back to waitressing. 

A warning should accompany this book, as there is lots of (raw) sex and drug use and drinking.  Apparently, this is the way of life of many people employed in the food industry, but there is no sugar coating in the telling.


As a cautionary tale, this is a good read.  It is sad to think that people have lives that follow this path, but certainly not surprising.  

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