Inheritances of Hunger by Stella Lei

1st printing, 200 copies: 32 pages, 5.5” x 8.5”

cover & text stock is 100% post-consumer fiber

made with renewable energy. Inset sheet of artisan paper.

Stella Lei is a teen writer from Pennsylvania whose work appears in CRAFT, Four Way Review, Peach Mag, and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize, as well as selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. She is an Editor in Chief for The Augment Review, she has two cats, and she tweets @stellalei04.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications, in which these stories originally appeared, sometimes in earlier forms: “Games” in trampset, “Changeling” in Peach Mag, “On Building a Nest” in X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, and “Graftings” in CRAFT.

Cover art by Taylor Yingshi
https://www.tayloryingshi.com/

Praise for Inheritances of Hunger

“This is not your average family drama. In five raw, gutting stories, Lei pulls us into a post-apocalyptic girlhood where bloodline means blood spilled, where childhood games have chilling conclusions, where mothers give daughters voice and teeth, teach them to sing and teach them to bite. But Lei’s stories are as universal as they are specific; reading her work, you have the feeling that she is slipping her blade beneath your skin, revealing a world that could exist, or maybe already does. A cutting, thrilling, and delightfully subversive collection.”

—Kaya Dierks, Fiction Editor of GASHER Press

“In this collection, Stella Lei brings us visions of hunger with an artist’s eye for detail. Every story is vivid, shining, full of power. While the reader is pulled into the characters’ hunger and desire, we are left sated by the gift of these cutting, beautiful stories.”

—Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You

“Written with the verve of youth, but with the language and resonance of a master. Lei wields her use of white space and staccato rhythms like a maestro guiding the reader through moments of character weakness and triumph. These characters, intimate in voice, draw the reader close, revealing a new or forgotten world that surrounds us all if we’re willing to look hard enough. These stories linger long after reading!”

—Tommy Dean, Editor of Fractured Lit

“With an abundance of stellar writing, gripping tales and a deep rooted theme of family bonds and connections, Stella Lei’s Inheritances of Hunger is the new book you’ll want on your shelf.”

—Jaidah-Leigh Wyatt in Juven

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