Hungry Hearts, Elsie Chapman
Hungry Hearts, Elsie Chapman
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Hungry Hearts
13 Tales of Food & Love

Author: Elsie Chapman, Caroline Tung Richmond

Narrator: Michael Braun, Amielynn Abellera, Ayyar Priya, Leila Buck, Rendah Heywood, Almarie Guerra, Catherine Ho, Roland Lane

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/02/2019

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melanie

Blog | Instagram | Youtube | Ko-fi | Spotify | Twitch This was our December 2020 pick for the Dragons and Tea Book Club! 🐉☕ ➽ content and trigger warnings: death of loved one (Rain), death (Kings and Queens), frequent mentions of death (Moments to Return), bullying (Sugar and Spite), racism (Sugar a......more

Goodreads review by CW ✨

My full review is now up on my blog, The Quiet Pond. I also went on a food crawl to find all the food in this anthology! - Reading this anthology felt like sampling a tasting menu of the rich and brilliant colours of life. I loved this anthology and its stories so much - it's my favourite anthology I......more

Goodreads review by Vicky Again

I think, if I did my math correctly, the average of all the ratings of the stories is 4.11. But I also think this anthology deserves bonus points for the way the stories worked together, alluded to each other, and led up to each other. I loved this and the links between the stories really added somet......more

Goodreads review by Sahitya

As this is an anthology, I have rated the individual stories below but I’m still rating the overall collection a 5 star because I think it’s beautiful and heartfelt and has an important message. While this book has been on my most anticipated list of 2019 and I have eagerly awaited its release, I som......more

Goodreads review by Sara

13 stories about food and the different cultural and social significance food plays both in day to day life as well as special events. All of the stories are own voices, which I really appreciated, and we see a wide variety of different cultures centered around one town. We have cute romances, crime......more

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