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Rooted in two greatly different cultures, a man struggles to comprehend himself, find his put in place the earth, and reconnect along with his mother - and her distant tribe in the deepest jungles of the Amazon rainforest - in this powerful memoir that combines experience, record, and anthropology. "My Yanomami family called me by name. Anyopo-we. What it means, I soon learned, is 'long way around': I'd used the good way around obstacles to be here among my people, back where I started. A 20-time detour." For a lot of his young life, David Good was torn between two greatly different worlds. The boy of American anthropologist and a tribeswoman from a distant part of the Amazon, it got him 20 years to accept his personal information, reunite with the mother who still left him when he was six, and claim his history. 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's the account of his parents, his American scientist daddy and his mother who could not fully adjust to the Western lifestyle. Good writes sympathetically about his mother's abandonment and the deleterious effect it acquired on his young self; of his rebellious teenage years marked by depression and drinking, and the near-fatal car accident that transformed him and provided him purpose to find a way back to his mother. A compelling story of recovery and finding, The Way Around is a poignant, attractive exploration of what family really means and the way that the best bonds endure, even across ages and worlds.

Category: Latin America

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Publisher	HarperAudio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2015-11
Author	David Good

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