Hunger

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. The novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives ofimmigrant families haunted by lost live: a ghostr seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death; and in the novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their two daughters. The characters, whose culture and families have been lost in the forces of history, mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment. 191p.