Ashley Warlick’s IN HUNGER, set in California and France between the Great Depression and World War II maps the early life of the gastronomic doyenne MFK Fisher, who, while writing her first book, traded her first husband for her second in a tangle of food and sex and impossible choices that shaped her into the iconic woman she would become, to Kathryn Court at Viking, in a pre-empt, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).