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Sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, suspects that she has been binging and purging for years. But Valerie's life, and priorities, are upended when her father dies abruptly. At home, she abandons her ED patterns as she tries to comfort her mother and little brother. Val begins to reevaluate her life, her choices, and her own body. She realizes that the path to happiness might lead her away from her hometown and her mother's toxic projections. But first she must apologize to Jordan and find the strength to seek help. This beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family dynamics, and, ultimately, a journey to self-love.

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Hungry Ghost is heartbreaking, hopeful, and frank about figuring out how to love yourself and even the people in your life who might stand in the way of that self-love. It's a beautiful, compelling book. --Trung Le Nguyen, creator of The Magic Fish Victoria Ying gives us an unflinching look at eating disorders and loss in this heartbreaking story about learning to love yourself. --Lily Williams, creator of Go With The Flow Such a beautiful, tragic, uplifting story about friendship and love. I wish I could have read this when I was a kid, but I'm also grateful that I've read it now. I'll be thinking about its message for a long time. --MariNaomi, creator of Distant Stars

A gorgeously wrought, therapeutic story filled with tenderness and honesty. --Kirkus, starred review Hungry Ghost is heartbreaking, hopeful, and frank about figuring out how to love yourself and even the people in your life who might stand in the way of that self-love. It's a beautiful, compelling book. --Trung Le Nguyen, creator of The Magic Fish Victoria Ying gives us an unflinching look at eating disorders and loss in this heartbreaking story about learning to love yourself. --Lily Williams, creator of Go With The Flow Such a beautiful, tragic, uplifting story about friendship and love. I wish I could have read this when I was a kid, but I'm also grateful that I've read it now. I'll be thinking about its message for a long time. --MariNaomi, creator of Distant Stars

Hungry Ghost is heartbreaking, hopeful, and frank about figuring out how to love yourself and even the people in your life who might stand in the way of that self-love. It's a beautiful, compelling book. --Trung Le Nguyen, creator of The Magic Fish Victoria Ying gives us an unflinching look at eating disorders and loss in this heartbreaking story about learning to love yourself. --Lily Williams, creator of Go With The Flow Such a beautiful, tragic, uplifting story about friendship and love. I wish I could have read this when I was a kid, but I'm also grateful that I've read it now. I'll be thinking about its message for a long time. --MariNaomi, creator of Distant Stars

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Victoria Ying is an author and artist living in Los Angeles. She started her career in the arts by falling in love with comic books, which eventually turned into a career working in animation and graphic novels. She loves Japanese curry, putting things in her shopping cart online and taking them out again, and hanging out with her dopey dog. Her film credits include Frozen, Moana, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero 6, and Paperman. She is the illustrator of the DC Comics graphic novel Diana: Princess of the Amazons and the author and illustrator of her original graphic novel City of Secrets. www.victoriaying.com

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