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In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen.
A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature's dominion.
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“A transcendent journey into a world where all living things?humans, animals, trees?coexist in magical balance, forever telling each other’s unique stories. This beautiful and elegant novel is a gem.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“A beautiful, gripping, thought-provoking exploration of human rewilding and nature’s dominion.”
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“A powerful allegory about the struggles and graces of life.”
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“A transcendent journey into a world where all living things―humans, animals, trees―coexist in magical balance, forever telling each other’s unique stories. This beautiful and elegant novel is a gem.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Finalist for the 2021 Chautauqua Prize
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Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
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Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition
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About Andrew Krivak
Andrew Krivak is the author of two previous novels: The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist, and The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He lives with his wife and children in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.
About Eric Jason Martin
Eric Jason Martin is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has narrated many dozens of audiobooks in fiction and nonfiction. He is also the host and producer of the award-winning This American Wife, a popular podcast, and now web series, that features original comedy and stories, as well as interviews with authors such as Robert Greene and Amy Tan.