«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

«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

«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

«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 Díaz, author of THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO

«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.»

Seán Hewitt