The Green Season [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

A dynamic collection of essays and reportage, The Green Season illustrates daily life in Costa Rica, a tiny Central American nation dedicated to peace and teeming with tropical life. With his trademark humor and observation, Robert Isenberg describes the people, culture, and biodiversity that make Costa Rica so unique—from a centuries-old indigenous ceremony to a remote jungle crisscrossed by crocodile-filled canals. Isenberg explores the country head-on, fighting his way through San José traffic, mingling with venomous snakes, and even making a cameo in an epic soccer film at the height of World Cup fever. Richly detailed and tenderly written, The Green Season is one expat’s love letter to his adoptive homeland.

Robert Isenberg is an award-winning writer and stage actor whose books include The Archipelago: A Balkan Passage, The Iron Mountain, and Wander, a poetry collection. His work has also appeared in Lonely Planet, McSweeney's, Mental_Floss, The Christian Science Monitor, and Pittsburgh Magazine. He holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Chatham University, where he served as Whitford Fellow, the program's highest honor. Originally from Vermont, he has traveled to 35 countries on five continents. He worked as a staff writer for two years for The Tico Times, Central America's most distinguished English-language newspaper. He currently contributes to The Phoenix New Times and teaches at Arizona State University.