In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares
the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she
fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. Laura was
in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to
backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the
edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and
complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically
terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in
Wayra, she made a friend for life. They weren't alone, not with
over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in
their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a
frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense
of humor. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. There
were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers,
handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who
carried Laura through. Most of all, there was the jungle-lyrical
and alive-and there was Wayra, who would ultimately teach Laura so
much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of
becoming. Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of
deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, The Puma
Years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of
rescue find one another.
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