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The author of "Green Fires" tells the vivid, complex story of the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp from the unique insider view of a conscientious objector, and his wife, living and working in the camp.

In Marnie Mueller's "My Mother's Island, " Sarah Ellis must tend to her dying mother, Reba. This moving story of subterranean conflict between a mother and her only child explores the tension between duty and commitment-how to honor one's parents even when one feels damaged by them. With sorrow, rage, empathy, and touches of humor, the story reaches its irrevocable conclusion in a death scene where Sarah is shocked to find a simple truth that ...

Marnie Mueller's Green Fires, set in Ecuador in 1969, dramatizes the first clashes between indigenous peoples and multinational oil companies, a conflict now playing itself out in final battles which may well ultimately determine the fate of the rainforest. Annie Saunders, a disillusioned Kennedy-era Peace Corps volunteer, returns to Ecuador, trying to come to terms with her traumatic experiences there. What she finds instead is a menacing and...