Another Bone-Swapping Event

“Brad Fox’s Another Bone-Swapping Event is a hypnotic odyssey through transformation, identity, and the unfathomable depths of spiritual and cultural encounter . . . Fox’s narrative is a masterwork of stylistic dexterity and intellectual rigor. It plunges us into the murky, luminous heart of change—the kind that fractures and remakes, that wounds and heals, that challenges the limits of identity itself. This incisive, poetic, and deeply human work invites us all to reconsider what it means to change, and whether change, at its most profound, is never quite what we expect.”
—Tony Huang, Hong Kong Review

“Sometimes a book’s title is sufficiently striking, and its subject—in this case, traditional medicine and the jungles of Peru—sufficiently unfamiliar to me, that it instantly lands a spot on my TBR. This is one of those times.”
—Calvin Kasulke, Lit Hub

“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

“Another Bone-Swapping Event is a revelatory fever dream in which the world around us peels away to expose the secret patterns beneath. Visceral, unnerving, and ultimately transformative, it is an astonishing achievement.”
—James Bradley, author of Deep Water and Ghost Species

“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

“Another Bone-Swapping Event is 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

“Another Bone-Swapping Event is 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