Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

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A briliant multicultual collection that reminds readers that stories about food are rarely just about the food alone. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A stunning collection of short stories about the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives in teens, from bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco.

A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the pastries she makes at her familys pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that can cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mothers life.

Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of lifes hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, Have you had anything to eat Where magic and food and love are sometimes one in the same.

Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.

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A Junior Library Guild Selection

A brilliant multicultural collection that reminds readers that stories about food are rarely just about the food alone. Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Emphasizing the importance of love, family, and culture, and written with delectable descriptions, each story is best savored like a favorite dish: slowly and with great relish. Publishers Weekly, starred review

Filled to the brim with delightful surprises and deep familial bonds. Shelf Awareness, starred review

If home is where the heart is, this gourmet story collection is a place many readers will ache to call home. . . Well-rounded, delicious. School Library Journal

Dynamic, varied, and filled with flavor. Booklist

Author Bio

Elsie Chapman grew up in Prince George, Canada, and has a degree in English literature from the University of British Columbia. She is the author of the YA novels Dualed, Divided, and Along the Indigo, the middle grade novel All the Ways Home, and the coeditor of A Thousand Beginnings and Endings and Hungry Hearts. She currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, with her family. You can visit her online at ElsieChapman.com.

Caroline Tung Richmond is the award-winning author of The Only Thing to Fear, The Darkest Hour, and Live in Infamy, and the coeditor of Hungry Hearts. Shes also the program director of We Need Diverse Books, a nonprofit that promotes diversity in childrens literature. A self-proclaimed history nerd and cookie connoisseur, Caroline lives with her family in the Washington, DC, area. Visit her online at CarolineTRichmond.com.

Sandhya Menon is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofWhen Dimple Met Rishi,Of Curses and Kisses, and many other novels that also feature lots of kissing, girl power, and swoony boys. Her books have been included in several cool places, including Today,Teen Vogue,NPR,BuzzFeed, andSeventeen. A full-time dog servant and part-time writer, she makes her home in the foggy mountains of Colorado.Visit her online at SandhyaMenon.com.

S. K. Ali is theauthorofSaints andMisfits, a finalist for the American Library Associations 2018 William C. Morris Award and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle East Book Honor Award; andLove from A to Z, aTodayshow Read with JennaBook Club selection. Both novels were named best YA books of the year by various media includingEntertainment WeeklyandKirkus Reviews. She is also the author ofMisfit in LoveandLove from Mecca to Medina. You can find Sajidah online at SKAliBooks.com and follow her on Instagram @SKAliBooks, TikTok @SKAliBooks, and on Twitter @SajidahWrites.

Rin Chupeco is a nonbinary Chinese Filipino writer born and raised in the Philippines. They are the author of several speculative young adult series, includingThe Bone Witch,The Girl from the Well,The Never-Tilting World, andWicked as You Wish. Formerly a graphic designer and technical writer, they now write fiction full-time and live with their partner and two children in Manila. They can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @RinChupeco.

Rebecca Roanhorse is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofTrail of Lightning,Storm of Locusts,Black Sun,andStar Wars: Resistance Reborn. She has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards for her fiction, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding Award for Best New Writer. She lives in New Mexico with her family.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Adi Alsaid is the author of several young adult novels includingLets Get Lost,We Didnt Ask for This, andNorth of Happy, a Kirkus Best Book nominee. He also wrote the middle grade bookThe Bravest Warrior inNefariaand editedCome on In: 15 stories about Immigration and Finding Home. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and two cats, where he occasionally spills hot sauce on things (and cats).

Phoebe North is the author of Starglass and Starbreak. She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Florida. She lives in New York State with her husband, her daughter, and her cat. Visit her at PhoebeNorth.com.

Karuna Riaziis a born and raised New Yorker, with a loving, large extended family and the rather trying experience of being the eldest sibling in her particular clan. Besides pursuing a BA in English literature from Hofstra University, she is an online diversity advocate, blogger, and publishing intern. Karuna is fond of tea,baking new delectable treats for friends and family to relish, Korean dramas, and writing about tough girls forging their own paths toward their destinies. She is the author ofThe GauntletandThe Battle.