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“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

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

Written by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond (Editors)
Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

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 family’s 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 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 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.

Primary ISBN: 9781534421851
Publication Date: June 2019
Available As: Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook, eBook
Young Adult, Age 12 or older

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