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Matt, a gay teenager suffering an eating disorder and daily bullying, believes that severe starvation grants him supernatural abilities—enhanced perception and the rumored power to bend time and space. Determined to stay sharp, he uses this perception to investigate how his bully, Tariq, and his crew drove his sister Maya away. Yet Matt soon discovers that hunger has many forms, and he is not in control of all the forces it awakens.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Sam J. Miller
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