Description: "In Hungry Lightning we glimpse haunting fragments of life among the Pumé Indians. We find an intimate, deeply feminine--but ever-so-slightly jaded and strangely melancholic--voice savoring the tastes and smells of life lived in the Venezuelan savanna. A complexly sensual portrait."--Barbara Wedlock
Brief description: Pei-Lin Yu is an archaeologist at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Pacific Northwest Regional Office in Boise, Idaho. She won the 1998 Goodbey Author's Award from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, for Hungry Lightning.