An intoxicating coming-of-age memoir, tracing one woman's search for identity through food, home, love, loss, and motherhood. Born into a food- and wine-obsessed New York City family who mixed with high society but were never truly of it, Tarajia Morrell grew up between worlds-between refinement and hustle, privilege and precarity, abundance and longing-always struggling to understand her own identity. As she comes of age, she dives into the electric nightlife of late-'90s Manhattan, where she was welcomed past the velvet rope at a different dance club every night, mixing with club kids and celebrities in a haze of strobing lights and pulsating beats. Then, she heads to Hollywood, where she struggles to be an actress while waiting tables at one of the hottest restaurants in town. It's only after tragedy and heartbreak strike not once but twice that she is propelled on a deeper quest toward self-discovery and healing. Vivid, sexy, and inspiring, THE FEAST is a remarkable story of a woman finding her way, one plate and one heartbreak at a time.