Way Around

<p>Rooted in two vastly different cultures a young man struggles to understand himself find his place in the world and reconnect with his mother--and her remote tribe in the deepest jungles of the Amazon rainforest--in this powerful memoir that combines adventure history and anthropology.</p><p><em>My Yanomami family called me by name. Anyopo-we. What it means I soon learned is 'long way around' I'd taken the long way around obstacles to be here among my people back where I started. A twenty-year detour.</em></p><p>For much of his young life David Good was torn between two vastly different worlds. The son of an American anthropologist and a tribeswoman from a distant part of the Amazon it took him twenty years to embrace his identity reunite with the mother who left him when he was six and claim his heritage.</p><p><em>The Way Around</em> 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 is the story of his parents his American scientist-father and his mother who could not fully adapt to the Western lifestyle. Good writes sympathetically about his mother's abandonment and the deleterious effect it had on his young self; of his rebellious teenage years marked by depression and drinking and the near-fatal car accident that transformed him and gave him purpose to find a way back to his mother.</p><p>A compelling tale of recovery and discovery <em>The Way Around</em> is a poignant fascinating exploration of what family really means and the way that the strongest bonds endure even across decades and worlds.</p>