WINNER OF THE DORSET PRIZE

ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Finalist

HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARD Finalist

One Hundred Hungers

Tupelo Press, 2016

In her Dorset Prize-winning collection, Lauren Camp explores the lives of a first-generation Arab-American girl and her Jewish-Iraqi parent. One Hundred Hungers tells overlapping stories of food and ritual, immigration and adaptation, evoking her father’s boyhood in Baghdad in the 1940s at a time when tensions began to emerge along ethnic and religious lines. She also draws upon memories of Sabbath dinners in her grandparents’ new home in America to reveal how family culture persists.

“Camp has written a lyric collection of poems that not only take the reader on a journey—they are a journey. Her words speak of the essential mystery of human experience, but also reconciliation of seeming opposites.”

— Miriam Sagan, Miriam’s Well

“One of the most sensuous books you’ll ever read.”

— Electric Lit

Purchase from the publisher or buy a signed copy from Lauren.