“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

“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, Literary 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’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

“[A] captivating memoir . . . In this narrative, unlike most memoirs these days, Fox isn’t interested in decanting a damaged psyche for our empathic delectation . . . This is because Another Bone-Swapping Event is both the record and the embodied result of change-seeking.” —Ron Slate, On the Seawall

Brad Fox takes us on a mind-bending exploration of meaning, matter, and plants, stemming from a 10-day trip that lasted a year in the high jungles of northeastern Peru.

In Another Bone-Swapping Event, Brad Fox tells the story of a wild year spent stuck in the high jungles of Peru—living with a family of Quechua-speaking curanderos–traditional medicine practitioners—responsible for a 100-hectare stretch of jungle just outside of Tarapoto in the northeastern part of the country, four hours’ walk from the nearest dirt road. In the care of local maestro Miguel Tapullima, Fox takes readers on a labyrinthine tour of meaning and matter, navigating elementary metaphysics, the wavering ambiguity of phenomena, and the absurdities of the moment.

Through it all, the lush prose that made The Bathysphere Book so embraced turns this book into its own mind-altering experience because, with Brad Fox as our guide, we’re able to engage with mind-altering possibilities that we may never have considered before, all during peak COVID, when no one knew how our collective future might unfold.