Congratulations on Everything

Name: Congratulations on Everything
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Nathan Whitlock
ISBN: 9781770909724

Author: Nathan Whitlock

Narrator: Braden Wright

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/07/2017

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A dark and comic novel, Congratulations On Everything tracks the struggles, frailties, and cruelly pyrrhic victories of the middle-aged owner of a bar-restaurant and a 30ish lunch-shift waitress.Jeremy has bought into the teachings of an empowerment and success guru, hook, line, and sinker. A Toronto service industry lifer, he’s risen through the ranks until he finally takes the keys to his destiny and opens his own place, The Ice Shack.Everyone assumes Ice Shack daytime waitress Charlene is innocent and empathetic, but in reality she’s desperately unhappy and looking for a way out of her marriage to her high-school sweetheart. A drunken encounter sends Charlene and her boss careening. The Ice Shack stops being an oasis of sanity and, as Jeremy struggles to keep his business afloat, he’ll stop at nothing to maintain his successful, good guy self-image.In an era when the gourmand rules and chefs become superstars, Congratulations On Everything is a hilarious and occasionally uncomfortable dose of anti-foodie reality that reveals what goes on when the customers and Instagrammers aren’t around — and even sometimes when they are.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carole on March 24, 2022

This review can also be found at [URL not allowed] I liked this book. I am always looking for something different and this sounded like it might fit the bill. It was an interesting enough story and it held my attention but I wouldn’t say that I was ever completely taken by the story. I a......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on September 18, 2017

Review to come.......more

Goodreads review by Laura.125Pages on May 06, 2016

This review was originally posted on www.125pages.com Congratulations on Everythingby Nathan Whitlock is a read I saw similar to an updated Cheers. A bar, the Ice Shack, is the heart of the story and those who work and drink in it are featured. The tale focused on Jeremy the bar's good guy owne......more

Goodreads review by Bryce on June 13, 2016

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley. This is a book in which not much happens, at least in the traditional sense. Our main character, Jeremy, owns a bar. His life has complications and struggles, as do the lives of the people around him. That's as much plot as you'll find here, but it's......more

Goodreads review by Doug on November 10, 2023

*** Possible Spoilers *** This book was classified as humerous but I think that was quite a stretch. There were a few things capable of bringing a smile to my face but precious few. The pacing was quite slow and the plot, in so far as there was one, pretty basic. Readers looking for humour, or fast p......more