Out November 4, 2025

A wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru.

“Brad Fox has traveled to the center of many worlds and here records a visit to the “passionate nada” in his disarming, beautifully natural style. Stranded in a powerful landscape, a clear voice renders human situations in elegant sentences that build to animate profound heartache and self-discovery. Read Another Bone-Swapping Event and witness what transforms.”

Eugene Lim, author of Search History and Fog & Car

“A trippy modern Decameron. Sequestered with an unlikely group of people from around the world, Brad Fox spent the covid pandemic in the Peruvian mountains under the care of a curandero with vast knowledge of medicinal plants. In this polyphonic book, the voices of humans and plants are woven into a dense meditation on suffering, healing, deception, truth, and what it means to be a living being on Earth.”

Marcia Bjornerud, author of Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks

“Brad Fox has an uncommon talent for being able to see the light in “plight.” This book, about a journey to an unfamiliar culture of thought and medicinal practice, of plants and spiritual transparency, is potent and funny and moving, an Odyssey of our time.”

Sumana Roy, author of How I Became a Tree and Provincials

“A profound meditation on what it means to exist on a fragile and vulnerable planet while simultaneously exploring its frayed, otherworldly edges.”

Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender and Greyhound

“A revelatory fever dream in which the world around us peels away to expose the secret patterns beneath. Visceral, unnerving, and profound, it is an astonishing achievement.”

James Bradley, author of Deep Water and Ghost Species