num_pages: 224
description: From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earths last two human inhabitants and a girl's journey home.In an Eden-like future a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization: some books a pane of glass a set of flint and steel a comb. The father teaches his daughter how to fish and hunt and 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 learn to listen. A cautionary tale of human fragility of love and loss The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of natures dominion.
language: English
title: The Bear
publisher: Bellevue Literary Press