The characters in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger are starved for any number of acceptance love success and even dreams of home.In the title novella a thwarted violinist struggles with his second-tier status forcing his dreams on his daughters and his nightmares on his wife the narrator. Some Chinese make their fortunes in America she realizes. Tian and I were not among them. Perhaps we lacked the forgetfulness that is essential to moving on. Chang beautifully conveys the pressures on these bewilder