Summary
"Explores the role of the extraction of natural resources under the current capitalist accumulation model, through the specific story of the town of Morococha, located in the central Peruvian Andes, and the ways in which extractivism permeates most aspects of human activity. An assemblage of collective enunciations woven through a letter to the author's eight-year-old son, the book connects the world of mining and extractivism to everyday life, personal histories of growing up in Lima, Peru, and living in California." -- From publisher description of English edition.