The Bear (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942658702)

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home

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.

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 three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.

Author: Andrew Krivak
ISBN-10: 1942658702
ISBN-13: 9781942658702
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2019 pg. 48
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 88
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2019 pg. 18
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 23
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2019
Foreword 12/26/2019
Shelf Awareness 03/20/2020