There have always been a lot of questions about the 73 years of Hunger Games before Katniss and Peeta were selected as District 12’s tributes. Some answers came in the books that followed The Hunger Games,

Haymitch Abernathy, Katniss and Peeta’s mentor from the first trilogy, narrates the events of Sunrise on the Reaping, which starts when he’s 16 years old. But Collins also gives other players more fleshed-out backstories, adding new insight about their characters.