One Year of Ugly Condition:Very Good *First Place Winner of the

*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation

she goes to the video store to rent Fat Busters

this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form as the trees and hills

and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother

looking for a fresh start

One Year of Ugly Condition:Very Good *First Place Winner of theAfter fleeing crumbling, volatile Venezuela, Yola Palacio wants nothing more than to settle into a peaceful new life in Trinidad with her family. And who cares if theyre there illegallyarent most of the people on the island? But life for the Palacios is far from quietand when Yolas Aunt Celia dies, the family once again find their lives turned upside down. For Celia had been keeping a very big secretshe owed a LOT of money to a local criminal called