Love Can't Feed You: A Novel

Love Can't Feed You: A NovelA beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the American dream. It asks us: What does it mean to

whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor

Bread and Circus personally offers how self-interest fails when it reduces people to commodity and spectacle

and expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion

the only one who ever really saw her

But unlike most twentysomethings

Kindred is controlled and precise" (New York Times)

she has no idea what's left of love when best friends become forgotten lovers

but much has been whispered

his brother

“A pitch-perfect small-town romance focused on forgiveness

He may be a jerk

Sanjana is struggling to resurrect her busted anthropology dissertation and crashing at her annoyingly perfect sister's while her well-adjusted peers obsess over marriages