{"product_id":"another-boneswapping-event-isbn-9781662603167","title":"Another Bone-Swapping Event","description":"\u003cb\u003eBrad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Brad Fox has traveled to the center of many worlds and here records a visit to the 'passionate nada' in his disarming, beautifully natural style. Stranded in a powerful landscape, a clear voice renders human situations in elegant sentences that build to animate profound heartache and self-discovery. Read \u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event\u003c\/i\u003e and witness what transforms.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003cb\u003eEugene Lim, author of \u003ci\u003eSearch History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFog \u0026amp; Car\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event\u003c\/i\u003e, Brad Fox tells the story of a year he spent stuck in the high jungles of Peru living with a family of Quechua-speaking curanderos responsible for a hundred-hectare stretch of jungle four hours’ walk from the nearest dirt road. In the care of local maestro Miguel Tapullima, Fox gets a crash course in traditional medicine and takes readers on a labyrinthine tour, in turn contemplative and comic, navigating the coexisting realities of the human and more-than-human world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough it all, the lush prose that made \u003ci\u003eThe Bathysphere Book \u003c\/i\u003eso distinct turns this book into its own rich and multi-layered experience, because with Brad Fox as our guide we’re able to stretch our minds to encompass histories and meanings, metaphysical questions at the base of phenomena, and the shattering ironies of the moment, all during peak COVID, when no one knew how our collective future might unfold.\"Brad Fox’s \u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic odyssey through transformation, identity, and the unfathomable depths of spiritual and cultural encounter . . . Fox’s narrative is a masterwork of stylistic dexterity and intellectual rigor. It plunges us into the murky, luminous heart of change—the kind that fractures and remakes, that wounds and heals, that challenges the limits of identity itself. This incisive, poetic, and deeply human work invites us all to reconsider what it means to change, and whether change, at its most profound, is never quite what we expect.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTony Huang, \u003ci\u003eHong Kong Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sometimes a book’s title is sufficiently striking, and its subject—in this case, traditional medicine and the jungles of Peru—sufficiently unfamiliar to me, that it instantly lands a spot on my TBR. This is one of those times.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCalvin Kasulke, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brad Fox has an uncommon talent for being able to see the light in plight. This book, about a journey to an unfamiliar culture of thought and medicinal practice, of plants and spiritual transparency, is potent and funny and moving, an Odyssey of our time.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSumana Roy, author of \u003ci\u003eHow I Became A Tree \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eProvincials\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelatory fever dream in which the world around us peels away to expose the secret patterns beneath. Visceral, unnerving, and ultimately transformative, it is an astonishing achievement.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJames Bradley, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Water \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGhost Species\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brad Fox has traveled to the center of many worlds and here records a visit to the 'passionate nada' in his disarming, beautifully natural style. Stranded in a powerful landscape, a clear voice renders human situations in elegant sentences that build to animate profound heartache and self-discovery. Read \u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event\u003c\/i\u003e and witness what transforms.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEugene Lim, author of \u003ci\u003eSearch History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFog \u0026amp; Car\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event\u003c\/i\u003e is a trippy modern \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e. Sequestered with an unlikely group of people from around the world, Brad Fox spent the covid pandemic in the Peruvian mountains under the care of a curandero with vast knowledge of medicinal plants. In this polyphonic book, the voices of humans and plants are woven into a dense meditation on suffering, healing, deception, truth, and what it means to be a living being on Earth.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMarcia Bjornerud, author of \u003ci\u003eTurning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAnother Bone-Swapping Event \u003c\/i\u003e is a profound meditation on what it means to exist on a fragile and vulnerable planet while simultaneously exploring its frayed, otherworldly edges.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJoanna Pocock, author of \u003ci\u003eSurrender\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGreyhound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBrad Fox’s \u003ci\u003eThe Bathysphere Book\u003c\/i\u003e was a winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation's Science + Literature Award and a Washington Post Top Ten Best Book of 2023 and Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 and was called \"Hypnotic . . . Beautifully written and beautifully made” by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eTo Remain Nameless\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublic Domain Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Whitney Biennial\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Astra House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232929853669,"sku":"NP9781662603167","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781662603167.jpg?v=1767721642","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/another-boneswapping-event-isbn-9781662603167","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}