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π We're still so over the moon that #Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla is the newest pick for Oprah's Book Club! π

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π We're still so over the moon that #Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla is the newest pick for Oprah's Book Club! π
"It was based on this experience I had when I was a teenager when my family and I lost our housing."
Amanda Rizkalla discussed her riveting debut novel #Hungered with Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King on @cbsmornings.bsky.social after it was picked for Oprah's Book Club!
π£οΈ In case you haven't already heard the exciting newsβ HUNGERED by Amanda Rizkalla is the latest @oprahsbookclub pick!
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We love the latest praise for Amanda Rizkalla's debut novel #Hungered! β¨
It's no surprise it's the newest Oprah's Book Club pick! π
#Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla is the newest pick for Oprah's Book Club!
The powerful debut novel follows the story of Sofia, a 12-year-old living in a car with her mother and brother, as she tries to figure out her own identity.
#Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla is the newest Oprah's Book Club pick.
This beautifully-written, emotional debut tackles the difficult subject of housing insecurity from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl living in a car with her mother and brother:
"The idea of home has always felt really slippery to me and always in flux."
Watch Amanda Rizkalla discuss how her family losing their housing inspired her striking debut book #Hungered. (the newest Oprah's Book Club pick):
@Oprah called Amanda Rizkalla's debut novel #Hungered "riveting," and selected it as the next @oprahsbookclub pick!
The coming-of-age novel centers on the experience of a young girl whose family is unhoused, drawing on Rizkalla's own experience with housing insecurity:
"A lot of this experience felt invisible and it's something I wanted to capture in the book."
Listen to Amanda Rizkalla talk with The Oprah Podcast about how she drew on her experience being unhoused as a young teenager to write her new book "Hungered":
π #Hungered by Amanda Rizkalla is an @oprahsbookclub pick! Learn more:
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