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Winner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book!"Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless, and powerful, The Art of Starving is a classic in the making." - Book RiotMatt hasnt eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt wont give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp - and he needs to be as sharp as possible if hes going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away.Matts hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see things he shouldnt be able to see. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of peoples heads. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. So what is lunch, really, compared to the secrets of the universe?Matt decides to infiltrate Tariqs life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. No problem. But Matt doesnt realize there are many kinds of hunger ... and he isnt in control of all of them.A darkly funny, moving story of body image, addiction, friendship, and love, Sam J. Millers debut novel will resonate with any reader whos ever craved the power that comes with self-acceptance.
About the Author
Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a "Must Read" in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine) . Sam's short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. He is the last in a long line of butchers, and he has also been a film critic, a grocery bagger, a community organizer, a secretary, a painter's assistant and model, and the guitarist in a punk rock band. He lives in New York City, and at samjmiller.com.
