Title: Surinam: Stumbling through the Dark Heart of South America's Forgotten Jungle [The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname]
Author: Andrew Westoll
Publisher: Old Street Publishing
Year:2008/2009
Country: Suriname
349 pages
My last country for reading the world. The book was also published as The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname. It doesn't quite meet my 2-year author residency requirement, but I'll follow up with Mark Plotkin, who is featured in absentia here as well.
Mostly but not entirely a quest memoir, this follows Westoll as he hangs around in Surinam experiencing inchoate longings and, in the process of searching for what he's searching for, loses a relationship. Those there is some focus on the okopipi (Dendrobates azureus, blue frog), the purpose is to find meaning and identity, not just the frog. See his website, http://www.andrewwestoll.com/
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