Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco, two very different New Jerseyan teens, have a story to tell and the Hackensack Police would really like to hear it. After all, Vic and Mad are currently being held in two separate interrogation rooms at the police station.
Their story begins with the death of Vic's father and ends with the murder of Mad's uncle. What happens in the chapters in between?
For starters:
1. Vic, who loves lists, runs away from home
2. Vic meets Mad and the other three Kids of Appetite (they live in an abandoned greenhouse; they spend hours thinking and eating and dreaming and talking... and eating)
3. Vic is in need of closure, so the Kids of Appetite help (the plan is to help him scatter his dad's ashes in specific locations based on a coded list of places)
4. Vic falls in love (hard and really frakking fast, as they say)
Moving back and forth between flashbacks and the present, with pieces of the story told in lists and letters, you too will want to be one of the Kids of Appetite as they love, grieve, and ultimately celebrate their diverse and beautiful lives.
“Interrogated in separate rooms at a New Jersey police department, a young man with a neurological disorder characterized by facial paralysis and a beautiful punk girl explain how they found themselves wrapped up in a murder.”
Arnold, D. (2016). Kids of appetite. New York, NY: Viking Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780451470782; Hardcover; $18.99.
