Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Kindle Edition

A very enjoyable read. This book reminds me of those strange and meandering novels (like Tom Robbins) except with an environmental bent, but not with the heavy-laden activist tone of early Carl Hiaasen. It is a great book with several interweaving plots and quite a bit of magical realism. Some parts of it are laugh out loud funny.Yamashita is an interesting writer; while one of the protagonists is Japanese (and this takes place in the Japanese expatriate community in Brazil), this is not necessarily an Asian-American book. I have heard however her say in interviews that she completely identifies herself as an Asian-American author - I wonder if that is pointing to the new globalism/cosmopolitan trend we're seeing nowadays.It's a fun read regardless of your political or racial proclivities so I would pick it up if you're a fan of Robbins, Pynchon, maybe even David Foster Wallace (lite) and others. It explores interesting ideas in science, religion, and throws in some corporate irresponsibility for good measure. Overall a very memorable book and one of my new favorites.

Interesting book. I purchased it for my English class. The book is an ecocritical take on corporate greed and pollution.

This novel is a hoot. Yamashita's free-wheeling black comedy satirizes most aspects of post-modern life: media, fads, environment, corporations, televangelists. It's all there in this "Russian novel on crack."

great required book for a film and literature culture class. I'd recommend. The author teaches at UC Santa Cruz too!

A junk drawer of whimsy, corny jokes, and oddly placed didactism.

very nice

This order was shipped diligently and I recieved it within 3 days of ordering it!

Seller was great, book not so much

A beautiful book