Prepare to enter the arena.
The Hunger Games arena. That’s right, nearly five years after returning to Panem—and going back in time—with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins is back with another prequel in Sunrise on the Reaping. This time, she’s detailing Haymitch Abernathy’s victorious journey through the Games’ Second Quarter Quell, 24 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute. That year, twice as many tributes entered but still only Haymitch emerged alive.
Over the course of the Hunger Games trilogy, little is known about Haymitch’s time in the arena, only that he won, pulled a stunt that angered the Capitol and led to the deaths of his family and girlfriend and cemented his future as a reclusive alcoholic. He sees himself, as Mockingjay reveals, as little more than a cautionary tale for the victors that came after him. But now, Collins is ready for readers to learn his full story.
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