What hunger
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9781668065570
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| Grouping Title | what hunger |
| Grouping Author | catherine dang |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-08-27 05:09:09AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-08-29 05:13:50AM |
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"It's the summer before high school, and Ronny Nguyen finds herself too young for work, too old for cartoons. Her days are spent in a small backyard, dozing off to trashy magazines on a plastic lawn chair. In stark contrast stands her brother Tommy, the pride and joy of their immigrant parents: a popular honor student destined to be the first in the family to attend college. ... Their parents rarely speak of their past in Vietnam, except through the lens of food. The family's meals are a tapestry of cultural memory: thick spring rolls with slim and salty nem chua, and steaming bowls of pho tai with thin, delicate slices of blood-red beef. In the aftermath of the war, Me and Ba taught Ronny and Tommy that meat was a dangerous luxury, a symbol of survival that should never be taken for granted. ... When tragedy strikes, Ronny's world is upended. ... A few nights later, at her first high school party, a boy crosses the line, and Ronny is overtaken by a force larger than herself. This newfound power comes with an insatiable hunger for raw meat, a craving that is both a saving grace and a potential destroyer"--
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2025
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Simon & Schuster
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Bildungsromans
Brothers -- Death -- Fiction
Cooking, Vietnamese -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Generational trauma -- Fiction
Grief in adolescence -- Fiction
High school students -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Meat -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Rape -- Fiction
Revenge -- Fiction
Vietnamese American families -- Fiction
Vietnamese American teenagers -- Fiction
Brothers -- Death -- Fiction
Cooking, Vietnamese -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Generational trauma -- Fiction
Grief in adolescence -- Fiction
High school students -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Meat -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Rape -- Fiction
Revenge -- Fiction
Vietnamese American families -- Fiction
Vietnamese American teenagers -- Fiction
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What hunger
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What hunger / Catherine Dang
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What hunger
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Brothers
Cooking, Vietnamese
Death
Family secrets
Generational trauma
Grief in adolescence
High school students
Immigrants
Meat
Mothers and daughters
Rape
Revenge
Vietnamese American families
Vietnamese American teenagers
Cooking, Vietnamese
Death
Family secrets
Generational trauma
Grief in adolescence
High school students
Immigrants
Meat
Mothers and daughters
Rape
Revenge
Vietnamese American families
Vietnamese American teenagers
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