The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami

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.

“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...