Chance encounter with a tiny patch of upland rice in a Fresno community garden launched author Lisa Hamilton on a seven-year odyssey tracing one woman’s diaspora from Laotian highlands to our San Joaquin Valley’s semiarid flatlands. Hamilton’s The Hungry Season is an extraordinarily personal examination of Hmong culture for which rice defines life, literally and spiritually. Join “Down on the Farm” host Tom Willey and author Lisa Hamilton in conversation.