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The Way Around - Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami (Paperback)
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The Way Around - Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami (Paperback)
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Loot Price R456
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Rooted in two vastly different cultures, a young man struggles to
understand himself, find his place in the world, and reconnect with
his mother-and her remote tribe in the deepest jungles of the
Amazon rainforest-in this powerful memoir that combines adventure,
history, and anthropology. "My Yanomami family called me by name.
Anyopo-we. What it means, I soon learned, is 'long way around': I'd
taken the long way around obstacles to be here among my people,
back where I started. A twenty-year detour." For much of his young
life, David Good was torn between two vastly different worlds. The
son of an American anthropologist and a tribeswoman from a distant
part of the Amazon, it took him twenty years to embrace his
identity, reunite with the mother who left him when he was six, and
claim his heritage. The Way Around is Good's amazing chronicle of
self-discovery. Moving from the wilds of the Amazonian jungle to
the paved confines of suburban New Jersey and back, it is the story
of his parents, his American scientist-father and his mother who
could not fully adapt to the Western lifestyle. Good writes
sympathetically about his mother's abandonment and the deleterious
effect it had on his young self; of his rebellious teenage years
marked by depression and drinking, and the near-fatal car accident
that transformed him and gave him purpose to find a way back to his
mother. A compelling tale of recovery and discovery, The Way Around
is a poignant, fascinating exploration of what family really means,
and the way that the strongest bonds endure, even across decades
and worlds.
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