Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Karen Tei Yamashita, Percival Everett (introduction)A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, & a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe rise to the heights of wealth & fame before arriving at disasters—both personal & ecological—that destroy the rain forest & all the birds of Brazil.
About the Author
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, & Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award & awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, & the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow & co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor Emeritus of Literature & Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Percival Everett is the author of over 30 books since his debut, Suder, was released in 1983. His modern classics include I Am Not Sidney Poitier, So Much Blue, Erasure & Glyph. He lives in Los Angeles & teaches at The University of Southern California, where he is a Distinguished Professor of English. Everett was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 with his novel Telephone. He received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2022.