Hunger: A Novella And Stories

Hunger: A Novella And StoriesThe novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death; and in the title novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their two daughters.

Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends

Ginger Breadhouse adores her gummy candy fish

hard and soft power

But the village has many secrets and not everyone wants to be saved

never given to personal attachments

Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian - husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict - hold the keys to a solution

the Mahabharata - claims both Leela and the novel as his own creation

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waiting out an awkward scandal

until the Lucas family's BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men

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