The Necessary Hunger, Nina Revoyr
The Necessary Hunger, Nina Revoyr
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The Necessary Hunger

Author: Nina Revoyr

Narrator: Jin Yang

Unabridged: 13 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/26/2019

Synopsis

Two high-school girls growing up in the inner city, one Japanese-American, the other African-American, hunger for basketball stardom and a life beyond South Central Los Angeles. As a star basketball player in her last year of high school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Facing the fear of leaving home and wondering where her skill will take her, Nancy is not prepared for the complications that arise when she meets Raina Webber, a devoted, ferocious athlete, whose love of basketball is matched only by her talent for it.

Reviews

Goodreads review by luce (cry bebè's back from hiatus) on August 28, 2021

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | 2 ½ stars The Necessary Hunger, Nina Revoyr's debut novel first published in 1997, had the potential of being a great YA book. In many ways this novel was ahead of its times. Set in Inglewood, L. A., in the late 1980s The Necessary Hunger is narrated by seventeen-year-o......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on November 12, 2016

I'm still just trying to wrap my head around the fact that this book was published (by a major publisher, no less) in 1997 (20 years ago, people; I could have read this when I was 13 or 14 years old) and features an Asian American lesbian protagonist and several (I mean, too many to count) other les......more

Goodreads review by Chase on April 08, 2017

I really enjoyed this book. It's about the one that ultimately gets away, and there's something intangibly poetic about the story and the characters.......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on April 08, 2024

I think I’ll find myself coming back to this book. What a beautiful, vulnerable story.......more

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