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By: Elsie Chapman

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  • CategoryYoung Adult
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages358
  • Published2019
  • File size3.2 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9781534421851

Key ideas from the book

  • The interconnected stories center food in the lives of teens.
  • Food can express love, family, culture, despair, belonging, and home.
  • The collection presents food as more than a source of nourishment.
  • Readers encounter varied stories, including a family pastelería, a magical soup dumpling, and a cooking competition.

About Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Elsie Chapman

In these interconnected short stories, food is more than nourishment: it can carry meanings of family, culture, love, despair, belonging, and home. Set around Hungry Hearts Row, the collection follows teens whose experiences connect food with the questions and relationships shaping their lives.

The stories include a shy teen expressing herself through pastries at her family’s pastelería, a search for a magical soup dumpling, and an aspiring chef competing for money to help save his mother’s life. This young adult collection may appeal to readers who enjoy multicultural short fiction and stories about the ties between food, family, and culture.

About Elsie Chapman

Elsie Chapman is a Canadian writer of young adult fiction. Her novels include the dystopian thrillers Dualed and Divided, as well as the historical novel Along the Indigo. Across these books, Chapman writes suspenseful stories about young people navigating dangerous worlds and difficult choices. Her work spans speculative and historical settings, with recurring attention to identity and the pressures that shape young people’s lives.

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