Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including 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 with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.
“Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying.” —New York Times Book Review
“Dazzling . . . A seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Impressive . . . A flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil.” —Village Voice
“Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another.” —LA Weekly
“Amuses and frightens at the same time.” —Newsday
“Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Expansive and ambitious . . . Incredible and complicated.” —Library Journal
Percival Everett
Percival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including So Much Blue, Telephone, Dr No and The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His novel Erasure has now been adapted into the major film American Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Reviews for Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm usually not a fan of books with a "mission," as was the case here with it's critique of human waste and its effect on the environment and humanity. Yet, the magical realism kept me reading and even made me enjoy the political message of the book couched in fantasy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The repetitiveness (rhyming?) of the plot and character development gets tiring at points, but it is all ultimately in service of a more profound narrative.