Hungry Hearts

13 Tales of Food & Love

By: Elsie Chapman - Editor, Caroline Tung Richmond - Editor

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

From some of your favorite best-selling 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 13 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.

©2019 Compilation Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond (P)2019 Recorded Books

excellent read.

LGBTQ+ is present so naturally that i was challenged in my thinking and came to new conclusions. Excellent storytelling. thank you.