This includes a lion who is caged at a local truck stop who becomes something of a replacement for the lion that Anse has lost. One of her job duties involves rescuing exotic and abused animals around the American South from hideous fates. At roughly the same time, a young Filipino woman named Malaya, who is also a former soldier and an ex-member of an animal anti-poaching unit in South Africa, shows up at Little Eden and takes a job. One day, Henrietta escapes and is, in the attempt to re-capture her, shot dead when the lion seems to be about to attack Anse. The pride of the enclosure is a lioness named Henrietta. He owns a wildlife reserve called Little Eden that is home to all sorts of exotic animals. The story follows one Anse Caulfield, a fifty-something man living in South Carolina who happens to be a Vietnam vet and a retired racehorse jockey. The book basically asks the question, “What do you do when your pet - or, at least, an animal in your care - dies, and what do you do when that pet turns out to be a lion?” The only difference is that Brown writes about the death of a much, much, much bigger cat. But this review has little to do with my pet’s death, aside from mentioning that author Taylor Brown mines the loss of a beloved pet as fodder for his latest novel, Pride of Eden. I still, sometimes, think I can hear her meowing and can also see her from time to time out of the corner of my eye. She was only a cat, but we had been through thick and thin for 13 years, so when Dot died, it felt like my heart had stopped. On August 8, 2019, my best friend passed away.
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