Hello, George - Hunter Smith

18-year-old George is an aspiring chef with a problem: he can't taste his own cooking.

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After meeting an odd, charismatic dancer named Eliza at a Vietnamese restaurant, George's life becomes peppered with strange, fantastical events. He navigates a newfound relationship with Eliza while struggling to overcome his tastebuds, his perfectionist, world-renowned chef of a stepmother, as well figuring out what in the world he wants to do with his life.

Set in a quiet, wooded town in Northern California amid a sweltering summer, Hunter Smith's novel pushes the boundaries of contemporary magical realism while capturing the essence of the summer after one's 18th birthday-the summer before life irreparably changes, the summer where one asks, "Who am I?"

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