In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is "a deeply reported story of aspiration and desperation" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review): a nonfiction drama that "reads like the best of fiction" (Mark Arax), tracing one woman's journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggles to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike. As combat...