Mary Pipher, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of Hunger Pains: The American Woman’s Tragic Quest for Thinness, The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding our Families, and Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders. Her newest book is The Middle of Everywhere: The Worlds Refugees Come to Our Town. She has appeared on Today, 20/20, The Charlie Rose Show, PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. She lives in Nebraska with her husband, Jim.