Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
13 Tales of Food & Love
Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond, Sara Farizan, Sandhya Menon, Sangu Mandanna, Rebecca Roanhorse, Adi Alsaid, Phoebe North, Anna-Marie McLemore, Jay Coles, Rin Chupeco, S. K. Ali, Karuna Riazi
Readers rate it 4.1 (8 on Hardcover)
368 pages · Released Sep 3, 2026 · Simon Pulse
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This is a YA short-story anthology centered on food, culture, and relationships with diverse voices and prominent LGBTQ+ representation. The stories are emotional and character-driven, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and connection. While most content is age-appropriate for teens, individual stories may contain mild language, light romantic or sexual references, and some emotional heaviness around identity struggles or family conflict.
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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 t... 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 grant 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. This description comes from the publisher.
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- Character driven
- Weak Character Development
- Unloveable Characters
- Diverse Characters
- emotional
- hopeful
- reflective
- Fantasy
- Young Adult
- LGBTQ
- Anthology
- Short stories, American.
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ISBN 9781534421851 · Simon Pulse