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The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

Hamilton, Lisa M.

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ISBN10: 0316415898
ISBN13: 9780316415897
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.45
Language: English
In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, this nonfiction drama traces one woman's journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggled to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike​.

As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because she is part of the Hmong minority and because she is a daughter, not a son. When, at thirteen, she is promised in marriage to a man three times her age, it appears that Ia's future has been decided for her. But after brutal communist rule upends her life, this intrepid girl resolves to chart her own defiant path.

With ceaseless ambition and an indestructible spirit, Ia builds a new existence for herself and, before long, for her children, first in the refugee camps of Thailand and then in the industrial heartland of California's San Joaquin Valley. At the root of her success is a simple act: growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories. While the booming business brings her newfound power, it also forces her to face her own past. In order to endure the present, Ia must confront all that she left behind, and somehow find a place in her heart for those who chose to leave her.

Meticulously reported over seven years and written with the intimacy of a novel, The Hungry Season is the story of one radiant woman's quest for survival--and for the nourishment that matters most.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the 2024 Biographers International Plutarch Award Longlisted for the 2023 California Book Awards Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize Longlisted for the 2023 Northern California Book Awards

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