The question is, do you care entirely about satisfying hunger or would you rather do something like figure out what’s causing hunger in our system and trying to do something to correct those things that are perpetuating hunger or poverty?
Media attention seems crucial to the success of prison hunger strikes, so much so that Nelson Mandela once wrote of his hunger strikes on Robben Island in the 1960s and ’70s, “In order for a hunger strike to succeed, the outside world must learn of it.
The publishing insiders we spoke to, while unwilling to make any on-the-record bets about the next big thing in Y.A., did lean toward it being in the genre of fantasy or dystopian fiction, like The hunger Games. That doesn’t mean, however, that a hunger Games knockoff is going to be our next hunger Games. Kids can usually see right through that.