Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a novel by Japanese-American author Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer and Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American literature...

. The novel follows several characters over the course of several years - including a man who discovers the healing properties of feathers, a pilgrim named Chico Paco, pigeon caretakers and the three-armed creator of an industry. It is narrated by a small, plastic ball that floats in front of the head of the character, Kazumasa Ishimaru, a Japanese man who makes a home in Brazil near the Amazon rainforest where a mysterious plastic flatland exists called the Matacao.

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