{"product_id":"the-way-around-finding-my-mother-and-myself-among-the-yanomami-9780062382139","title":"The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami","description":"\u003cp\u003eRooted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Way Around\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling tale of recovery and discovery, \u003cem\u003eThe Way Around\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant, fascinating exploration of what family really means, and the way that the strongest bonds endure, even across decades and worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDavid Good is a member of a remote indigenous tribe known as the Yanomami. He is the founder and executive director of The Good Project, a nonprofit service organization dedicated to the education, health care, and preservation of indigenous groups in South and Central America. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in biological science and is a public speaker on the Yanomami and other indigenous tribes. He lives in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409519120658,"sku":"9780062382139","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7da77560-0f19-499a-b5ff-9cb7343f1afb.jpg?v=1729289550","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-way-around-finding-my-mother-and-myself-among-the-yanomami-9780062382139","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}