Eliane Brum argues that because of today’s climate emergency, the Amazon has a central role to play in our planet’s future. The book blends accounts of her personal process of reforestation since moving to the Amazon in 2017 with the lived stories of the Amazon’s forest peoples and its more-than-human world. It is a call for radical change, for the creation of a new kind of human being capable of facing the potential extinction of our species. In it, Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who are least responsible for them.

Author bio
Eliane Brum is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer, and documentarist. Her first work of nonfiction to be translated into English, The Collector of Leftover Souls was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Jan Michalski prize. She lives in Altamira, in the Amazon.

Translator bio
Diane Whitty has translated over a dozen major books from the Portuguese, including The Collector of Leftover Souls by Eliane Brum. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Glossalia (PEN America), Litro, Manoa, The Guardian, New York Times, and BOMB. She spent twenty-three years in Brazil and now lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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