num_pages: 321
description: 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 werent alone not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for each lost and hurt in their own 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 junglelyrical and aliveand 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.
language: English
title: The Puma Years
publisher: Little A