Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love - Hardcover

Chapman, Elsie; Richmond, Caroline Tung; Menon, Sandhya; Ali, S K; Chupeco, Rin; McLemore, Anna-Marie; Roanhorse, Rebecca; Farizan, Sara; Coles, Jay; Alsaid, Adi; Mandanna, Sangu; North, Phoebe; Riazi, Karuna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1534421858 ISBN 13: 9781534421851

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019

Synopsis

From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors--including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco--comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens.

A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family's pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could 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 mother's life.

Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life's 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 and 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.

About this title

Review:

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

About the Author:

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. She's also the program director of We Need Diverse Books, a nonprofit that promotes diversity in children's 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.

Other contributors include Sandhya Menon, S.K. Ali, Rin Chupeco, Anna-Marie McLemore, Rebecca Roanhorse, Sara Farzian, Jay Coles, Adi Alsaid, Sangu Mandanna, Phoebe North, and Karuna Riazi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1534421858
• ISBN 13: 9781534421851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Chapman Elsie, Richmond Caroline Tung