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 detour.”
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.
The Way Around 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.
A compelling tale of recovery and discovery, The Way Around is a poignant, fascinating exploration of what family really means, and the way that the strongest bonds endure, even across decades and worlds.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Paisner, Daniel

Good, David

Community & Culture

Dey Street Books

Stubborn. Emotionally reserved. Frustratingly loyal to his friends. Does this sound like the tough guy in your life? Do you feel like he's the sort of man you could love forever, if only you could understand him? David Good, winner of "Bachelor Pad" and fan favorite on "The Bachelorette," lifts the hood on the standard to which men hold themselves, empowering women by helping them decipher the unspoken rules that govern masculinity. Ultimately, Good offers that a Man Code man is just what a woman should want, despite his arriving in a complicated package. After all, what women ultimately desire is loyalty, a trait that is the foundation of the Man Code. Not a psychologist or sociologist, Good professes to only be an expert at one thing: tough guys. Men's men. Growing up in America's heartland, Good writes that he was surrounded by "hardened men who'd taken the dirt road in life. Men the ones Hank Williams would cast at the center of his songs." This, along with the experience of competing with 30 other men for the affection of a single lady makes him uniquely able to explain the alpha male to the fairer sex. In other words, Good has a doctorate in Man Code. Though he acknowledges that as a definitive alpha male he may seem an unlikely messenger, his goal with "The Man Code" is to lift women up, and to help them understand they are at their most attractive when they are strong, intelligent and self-possessed. He was raised, he writes, by strong women, and hopes to see that strength manifest in readers of his book. Readers will discover that Good has a unique point of view, and might be surprised at his nimbleness as writer. "The Man Code" is definitely not frat-house fodder, nor is it 10-steps-to-pleasing your man. Instead, Good's simple goal is to help women who find themselves attractive to men with strong core values, but who are reluctant to let their guards down.

The Man Code: A Woman's Guide to Cracking the Tough Guy

Parenting & Relationships

Pathway Book Service

This is the story of the incredible journey of David Good, the son of an American anthropologist father, and indigenous Yanomami mother who calls the Amazon rainforest her home. Overlapping the story of what David' s mother' s early years were like being raised in the rainforest, the book follows David from childhood to adulthood as he searches for identity, love, acceptance, and the one thing truly missing from his life, his mother. Growing up in a predominantly white population of the US without a mother or a deeper connection to his South American roots, David struggles with issues of identity and relationships. His and his mother' s stories intertwine in a heartbreakingly beautiful climax when they are reunited in the jungle. Beautifully illustrated and co-authored by award winning artist and storyteller, FLuX, Good is a vivid and breathtaking visualization of a highly unusual life' s journey.

Good: From the Amazon Jungle to Suburbia and Back

Comics & Graphic Novels

FLuX

Graphic Novels

NBM Publishing

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