The new Hunger Games book, Sunrise on the Reaping, is all about grumpy mentor Haymitch Abernathy’s Hunger Games. Haymitch had a particularly awful Hunger Games; in his Quarter Quell, there were double the amount of Tributes in the arena.

So how did Haymitch Abernathy survive the deadly Second Quarter Quell? Well, we’re one step closer to finding out Haymitch Abernathy is quite the legend in the “Hunger Games”

Sunrise on the Reaping will dive into the 50th Hunger Games and second Quarter Quell, which trilogy fans will recognize as the Games of victor Haymitch Abernathy of District 12. Catching Fire peeks into Haymitch’s Games during a scene in which Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark watch it on tape.

Sunrise on the Reaping's brief excerpt reveals quite a bit about Haymitch Abernathy's life before The Hunger Games.