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A review by laura_cs
Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Elsie Chapman
5.0
I received an ARC of this title from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
A grieving girl struggles to find the right balance of spices and ingredients to bring back a memory of her mother. A charming and popular Chinese restaurant that has a sinister secret menu. A teen advice blogger who issues her reader--and herself--a challenge. Three Filipino Lolas and their newest trainee, all with spices in their blood. A boy from Montenegro who seeks a soup dumpling that will take away his fear of death. A boy who needs to find the right recipe to soothe a ghost with unfinished business. An anxiety-ridden boy who competes in a culinary challenge to win money to save his mother's life. A white woman seeks glory and success, while her daughter knows that it won't be enough to save her Native father's dream. A boy falls from the sky into a girl's halal food cart. A struggling girl begins to question what she wants for herself and her future when a James Joyce-quoting boy walks into her grandfather's deli. A teen filmmaker explores her new home and tries to solve a mystery. A young woman struggles to fix her mistakes, earn back her father's trust, and perhaps win over her crush. And a mysterious girl who brings you treats from her family's Pasteria exactly when you need them.
What do these all have in common? Hungry Hearts Row.
This is a phenomenal series of interconnecting stories, all taking place in the same location but at different times and using different foods to explore family, friendship, love, culture, hopes and dreams. This fantastic short story collection features work from popular authors, such as Sandhya Menon (When Dimple Met Rishi, There's Something About Sweetie), S. K. Ali (Saints and Misfits, Love from A to Z), Jay Coles (Tyler Johnson Was Here), Rin Chupeco (The Bone Witch trilogy), and more. If you have never read from any of these authors before, "Hungry Hearts" is a wonderful introduction to each author's work, though perhaps their other works won't make the readers quite so hungry as they read!
A grieving girl struggles to find the right balance of spices and ingredients to bring back a memory of her mother. A charming and popular Chinese restaurant that has a sinister secret menu. A teen advice blogger who issues her reader--and herself--a challenge. Three Filipino Lolas and their newest trainee, all with spices in their blood. A boy from Montenegro who seeks a soup dumpling that will take away his fear of death. A boy who needs to find the right recipe to soothe a ghost with unfinished business. An anxiety-ridden boy who competes in a culinary challenge to win money to save his mother's life. A white woman seeks glory and success, while her daughter knows that it won't be enough to save her Native father's dream. A boy falls from the sky into a girl's halal food cart. A struggling girl begins to question what she wants for herself and her future when a James Joyce-quoting boy walks into her grandfather's deli. A teen filmmaker explores her new home and tries to solve a mystery. A young woman struggles to fix her mistakes, earn back her father's trust, and perhaps win over her crush. And a mysterious girl who brings you treats from her family's Pasteria exactly when you need them.
What do these all have in common? Hungry Hearts Row.
This is a phenomenal series of interconnecting stories, all taking place in the same location but at different times and using different foods to explore family, friendship, love, culture, hopes and dreams. This fantastic short story collection features work from popular authors, such as Sandhya Menon (When Dimple Met Rishi, There's Something About Sweetie), S. K. Ali (Saints and Misfits, Love from A to Z), Jay Coles (Tyler Johnson Was Here), Rin Chupeco (The Bone Witch trilogy), and more. If you have never read from any of these authors before, "Hungry Hearts" is a wonderful introduction to each author's work, though perhaps their other works won't make the readers quite so hungry as they read!