In 1970, John Lenoir’s post-graduate research into a colony of escaped African slaves in Suriname got off to an inauspicious star. His beloved wife, Katie, arrived from New York City, pet cat Daisy in tow, to live with him in a remote river island village for the next three years. But Katie, an aspiring filmmaker, left Langatabiki almost as soon as she saw the rudimentary living conditions: a thatched A-frame lean-to with no furniture except a hammock and a cluster of vampire bats that preyed on exposed human limbs at night. Daisy stayed, but a few months later, she was dead — likely killed by a jungle virus for which she had no immunity.
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