Interconnected YA stories where food, magic, and love meet on Hungry Hearts Row, exploring family, culture, and belonging.
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Interconnected YA stories where food, magic, and love meet on Hungry Hearts Row, exploring family, culture, and belonging.
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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 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...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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First-love themes and attraction across stories; no explicit sex
Violence & gore
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Gang violence, a shooting, murder, and fatal injuries mentioned
Profanity
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Strong language appears in some of the anthology's stories
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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LGBTQIA+ characters and themes featured in multiple stories
Religious content
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Passing cultural faith references, including Muslim characters
Magic & witchcraft
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Magical realism and enchanted food recur throughout the stories
Occult / demonology
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No real-world occult content present
Political content
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Light themes of cultural identity, belonging, and difference
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide referenced among sensitive topics in some selections
Abuse & suffering
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Sexual abuse, parental death, grief, and gang harm referenced
Other
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