Necessary Hunger, The - Softcover

"Revoyr has unerringly caught the angst of teenagers, as well as the rarified, self-involved world in which they live...A sympathetic, tender rendering of the frustration of unrequited love."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"This book may in fact contain the most loving prose we'll see on basketball until John Edgar Wideman writes about his daughter Jamila, the gifted point guard for Stanford...A soul-baring that grows deeply moving."
--Chicago Tribune

"Revoyr focuses on a number of issues, including competition, interracial relationships, and same-sex relationships...A thoughtful work..."
--Library Journal

"The Necessary Hunger is a moving, insightful story about family, friendship, and young people coming of age with the cards stacked against them."
--Asian Pages

Critical Praise for Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr:

A Booklist Book of the Year 2011

Finalist for SCIBA's 2011 Fiction Award

Winner of the 2011 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award

Winner of the first annual Indie Booksellers Choice Award

Selected for IndieBound's March 2011 Indie Next List, "Great Reads from Booksellers You Trust"

Featured in O, The Oprah Magazine's March 2011 Reading Room section as one of "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"

"Revoyr does a remarkable job of conveying [protagonist] Michelle's lost innocence and fear through this accomplished story of family and the dangers of complacency in the face of questionable justice."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Revoyr writes rhapsodically of a young girl's enthrallment to the natural world and charts, with rising intensity, her resilient narrator's painful awakening to human failings and senseless violence. In this shattering northern variation on To Kill A Mockingbird, Revoyr drives to the very heart of tragic ignorance, unreason, and savagery."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Hauntingly provocative...an excellent choice for book discussion groups as it will force readers to dig deep and look inward."
--Library Journal

"Gripping and insightful."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A searing, anguished novel...The narration and pace are expertly calibrated as it explores a topic one wishes still wasn't so current."
--Los Angeles Times

"Much can be said and commended about the book's themes of loyalty and love...I'll just say that this author is a big talent. Her book is a little thing of beauty. It's a story with American historical significance; it's a novel with emotional heft; it's a satisfying read in the spirit of what Picasso said about another writer, James Joyce: 'The incomprehensible that everyone can understand.'"
--Brooklyn Rail

Nina Revoyr is the author of six novels, including The Age of Dreaming, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Southland, a Los Angeles Times best seller and "Best Book" of 2003; Wingshooters, which won an Indie Booksellers' Choice Award and was selected by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of "10 Titles to Pick Up Now," and A Student of History, available on March 5, 2019 from Akashic Books. Revoyr lives and works in Los Angeles.