Title: Street Food and Love
Author: H.A. Enri
Published by: Martin Sisters Publishing
Publication date: Summer 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Published by: Martin Sisters Publishing
Publication date: Summer 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
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Sole Eaby, seventeen, has a few complaints he’d like to lodge against life, the main one being that his dad, Cedro, has recently quit his job and withdrawn his entire life savings, which included Sole’s college fund. Why? To launch a food truck business he knows nothing about.
To cope, Sole uses his knifelike wit to moonlight as a stand-up comedian, and so far, it’s paying off. He’s not only replenishing his college treasury, he’s making people laugh; but it’s one person in particular he performs for. Her name is Ava. When the fated bond of humor joins the two, and they begin a sort of quasi-romance, things begin to seem somewhat bearable. Of course, that’s when an ill-timed event decides to put another spin on things. Just when Sole is ready to move on with his own life and disconnect himself from his father and the family business, he suddenly finds himself in charge of the food truck he desperately loathes. Here is where Sole must realize that the answers to love and life are not to be found apart but, rather, are more like a savory recipe: only by combining the ingredients will the wonderful flavors reveal themselves. When comedy isn’t enough, the future seems ever bleak, and a fledgling love has barely had a chance to bloom, where will Sole turn?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
H.A.'s love for all things caffeinated is what keeps him awake and alert so he can pursue that glorious tyrant called Nostalgia. And after all, isn't that what provokes most adult authors to write stories about the teenage years they long ago left behind (referring to Nostalgia, not the caffeine...he hopes)? When he isn't writing, H.A. can be found quaffing coffee (Yes, he might be addicted--don't judge) reading, riding his bike, snapping photos, making music, working on his theory of everything, and, on rare occasions, attempting to discover the elusive, and maybe impossible, secret to time travel. H.A. lives in So Cal. Street Food and Love is H.A.'s first novel.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8295103.H_A_Enri
A CHAT WITH THE AUTHOR
A CHAT WITH THE AUTHOR
How’d you pick the title of the book?
It’s the material clashing with the
existential. The truck is a symbol for all things wrong with the world for
Sole, the novel’s main dude. Street food is what the truck is all about, so I
used that terms versus “food truck.” Since the food truck or “street food” are always
at odds with Sole and his heart (yes, it’s okay to sigh and say “aw.”), I chose
to capture that with “love.” Until these two opposing forces learn to coexist,
neither of them has a chance to make it. The title, in a simple way, somewhat
epitomizes those novel’s major motifs.
Why did you pick LA as the setting?
My character, as an aspiring comedian,
inspired all that is L.A.—someone who wants to get into showbiz and has the
chops to do so. Sole thinks, like many, that achieving his celebrity plan is
his exit card from all things painful. From
there, I wanted to unveil of a story of someone whose greatest obstacle
is not external—abuse, violence, etc.—but rather is the soft issues of the
heart that are sometimes more detrimental than the obvious ones. There is this
individual surrounded by the giant of possibility that is L.A., and his world
is just this tiny, fading echo. I liked the contradiction.
How important are names to you in your
books?
Sometimes too much, so I try to back
off. Many of my first drafts start off with names looking like this: ________.
Yes, really. Then, when I finally give them a name, it’s nothing as potent and
floral and full of atmosphere and meaning like I thought it would be. Someday,
I’ll name my characters Jim, John, Jen and things like that.
Are any of the characters in the book
based on someone you know?
Most characters are concoctions of many
people in various forms—those we know, those we’ve heard about, those we’d like
to know and those we knew. Once you put all that together, my answer, like a
writer, would technically be kind of but not really. Not very technical, is
it...
Would you actually want to own a food
truck, and if so, what would you serve and what would you call it?
Owning and operating? Hmm. Perhaps, with
a capital P. In conducting the research for this book, I came to understand a)
it’s no easy task to keep a successful food truck running; b) success does not
always have to do with the ability to deliver big on taste; c) concept and
branding i.e. marketing are huge aspects to the business and, like many
artists, that whole part of it is not always where the passion of it all lie;
d) a little luck never hurts. Does this sound like someone trying to be a
writer? Surely does. I love to cook and do at least four days out of the week,
but to make my livelihood out it...I’d have to be pretty hungry to commit
anytime soon. Lot’s of love to food truck owner operators.
Is there a certain type of scene that's
harder for you to write than others? Love? Action? Racy?
That’s up to the reader to decide. If it
doesn’t work, they’ll probably say that scene is my trouble spot. As for love
and romance: I like to trace the scene and use allusion. Most writers, if
honest, probably like scenes that the editor said, “Eh.” So, I just go where
the character needs to and try not to worry about the words, like real people
do in real life in difficult situations.
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