Bear

About this book

Lou is a lonely librarian who spends her days in the dusty archives of the Historical Institute. When an unusual field assignment comes her way, she jumps at the chance to travel to a remote island in northern Ontario, where she will spend the summer cataloguing a library that belonged to an eccentric 19th-century colonel. Eager to investigate the estate's curious history, she is shocked to discover that the island has one other inhabitant: a bear. Lou's imagination is soon overtaken by the island's past occupants, whose deep fascination with bears gradually becomes her own. Irresistably, Lou is led along a path of emotional and sexual self-awakening, as she explores the limits of her own animal nature. What she discovers will change her life forever.

Subjects

  • american literature
  • bears
  • canadian fiction
  • canadian science fiction
  • emotional maturity
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction in english
  • human-animal relationships
  • loneliness
  • maturation (psychology)
  • sexual ethics
  • women archivists