No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit. -- Alice Walker, author of THE COLOR PURPLE Julian Aguon speaks to the soul. His words - gentle, fierce, luminous and haunting - urge us to look deeper. To be kind, to be human. To cherish the earth. I am in love! -- Isabella Tree, author of WILDING The shortest BIG book I've ever read...strong and luminous as a needed beacon in a fog of disinformation and dismay, Julian Aguon with this small book emerges already a giant. -- Tommy Orange, author of THERE THERE No Country For Eight-Spot Butterflies broke my heart into anger and remade it into hope. Full of a fierce empathy, it is a brilliant, incandescent book. Julian Aguon shows us how love and beauty might guide us into a better, more equitable world. -- Sen Hewitt A breathtaking book and I mean it - this book took my breath away. No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is so alive with passion, wisdom and heart, you can almost feel its pulse. -- Junot Daz, author of THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO It had me in its embrace like the oldest and dearest of friends... Overflowing with warmth and wisdom and defying all categorisation, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is philosophy, poetry, memoir, history and self-help for humanity. With bottomless love for his people and place, Aguon guides us through a portal to the Pacific, sharing deep insights earned from life on the existential knife's edge.' -- Naomi Klein, author of THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING and NO LOGO No Country For Eight-Spot Butterflies... is uncategorisable - part memoir, part manifesto, part poetry and entirely beautiful... This is a book of passion and possibility, and unlike anything else I've read on our shared world and future. * Geographical *

Julian Aguon (Author) Julian Aguon is an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer from Guam. He is also the founder of Blue Ocean Law, a progressive firm that works at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice; and serves on the global advisory council of Progressive International. Arundhati Roy (Introducer) Arundhati Roy is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. She is the author of various works of non-fiction including My Seditious Heart, Azadi and, most recently, The Architecture of Modern Empire.