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

a nurse is worn down by the demand for her skills as a funeral singer

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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