Another Bone-Swapping Event

Brad Fox takes us on a mind-bending exploration of meaning, matter, and plants, stemming from a year in the high jungles of northeastern Peru. In Another Bone-Swapping Event, Brad Fox tells the story of a wild year spent stuck in the high jungles of Peru, living with a family of Quechua-speaking curanderos - traditional medicine practitioners -responsible for a 100-hectare stretch of jungle just outside of Tarapoto in the northeastern part of the country, four hours' walk from the nearest dirt road. In the care of local maestro Miguel Tapullima, Fox takes readers on a labyrinthine tour of meaning and matter, navigating elementary metaphysics, the wavering ambiguity of phenomena, and the absurdities of the moment. Through it all, the lush prose turns this book into its own mind-altering experience because, with Brad Fox as our guide, we're able to engage with mind-altering possibilities that we may never have considered before. AUTHOR: Brad Fox's The Bathysphere Book 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 New York Times. He is the author of the novel To Remain Nameless and has written for The New Yorker, Guernica, Public Domain Review, and The Whitney Biennial.