The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reveals more about the history of the Hunger Games and Lucy Gray Baird's influence on the annual horrific competition, all of which changes how one perceives Mags Flanagan's win. Suzanne Collins's 2020 novel is a prequel to her Hunger Games trilogy and is set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the 74th Hunger Games. The book, which was later adapted into a movie (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), works as President Coriolanus Snow's villain origin story. But it also introduced a new character — Lucy Gray.

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