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In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston) .. Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to figure out their new capitalist reality, discovering its wonders as well as its horrors. They forged an uneasy symbiosis with their white antagonists - until decades of suppressed trauma erupted into a massacre; an act of retribution that made headlines across the globe. . Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye is a story of survival against all odds; of the temptations of wealth and the dream of prosperity; of a vital ecosystem threatened by the hunger for natural resources; of genocide and revenge.
About the Author
I'm a freelance writer with bylines at The Awl, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, and The Washington Post. My first book, "Brazillionaires," will be out from Random House (via the Spiegel & Grau imprint) in July 2016.
Going farther back: I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College (class of '05) , I worked for a while in book publishing in New York before moving to Bogotá to become a journalist. In 2010 I moved to São Paulo, where I spent a couple of years covering the ultra-rich as a full-time job at Bloomberg News. My book, which is about Brazil and its billionaires, grew from that experience. I just recently moved back to New York.
Also, I tweet a lot at @alexcuadros.
