3.5
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.
A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American ceo with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe rise to the heights of wealth and fame before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological—that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil.
A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American ceo with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe rise to the heights of wealth and fame before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological—that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil.
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3.5
“I liked this book, it was just too wordy at times. I wish I had known from the start that it was a sort of eco-horror/environmental humanities/critique on the environment, because that might have made the experience reading 1) more enjoyable and 2) a more immersive one (that I understood)”
“This was an incredibly raw, new, refreshing, tasteful, thoughtful, poignant experience. Yamashita is such an incredible mind explored so throughly in this work, and the LAYERS. THE LAYERS!!! How do you possess and display such a deep and potent love for the world while slowly and meticulously destroying it all. How do you make me care so deeply for it all.”
About Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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