title: Hunger (Kessler novel)
text: # Hunger (Kessler novel)
  
  Hunger is a 2010 young adult novel by Jackie Morse Kessler.
  
  ## Plot
  
  An anorexic teenage girl is given the duties of Famine, of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Kirkus Reviews said, the author's "ear for dialogue, fluid prose and dark humor elevate this brief novel above other 'issue books'". Library Media Connection said that the author's "experience with bulimia brings realism to the topic", and that "the mix of fantasy and action makes this short novel... compelling reading, especially for reluctant readers". Jenny of Wondrous Reads found it "...brilliant."
  
  