Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.

Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying. -New York Times Book Review

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

This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting… . Yamashita seems to have thrown into the pot everything she knows and most that she can imagine-all to good effect. -Publishers Weekly

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, rise to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters-both personal and ecological-that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil.