num_pages: 288
description: An extraordinary story of survival and recovery by a woman who was attacked by a grizzly bear.On a sunny fall day in 1983, Patricia Van Tighem and her husband, Trevor, began a hiking trip in the Canadian Rockies with a two-thousand-foot climb through rocks and forest. The next morning, in a landscape dusted by snow, they crossed paths with a grizzly bear–and their lives were forever changed.That Van Tighem survived at all is a miracle, and her account of the attack is vivid and startling. But her recovery was just as Her numerous reconstructive surgeries were painful; her facialdisfigurement isolated her; and the nightmares that haunted her carried their own psychological burden. Yet she was eventually able to accept her unthinkable experiences, and to put her life back together as a survivor, a wife, and a mother.With honesty and eloquence, The Bear’s Embrace tells of the unpredictability of life, of bravery, terror, rage and love, of what it means to look and feel different in a culture that values perfection. Uncommonly affecting, often astonishing, The Bear’s Embrace is an inspiring story of humanperseverance and self-knowledge.
language: English
title: The Bear's Embrace: A True Story of Survival
titlecomplete: The Bear's Embrace: A True Story of Survival
genres: Biography, Animals, Nature, Tragedy, Adventure, Canada, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Survival
ratings_count: 523
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
publisher: Pantheon