Mystery Lover's Book Club - NH Big Read "The Bear"

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Mystery Lover's Book Club - NH Big Read "The Bear" In-Person

Not your usual mystery. The Rodgers Memorial Library crime solvers group is taking a month off from our normal murder and mayhem to join the rest of New Hampshire reading, "The Bear," by Andrew Krivak.

Andrew Krivak’s The Bear begins with a man and a girl who appear to be the last of their kind on earth. The lack of details on what has transpired to leave them as seemingly the last humans force the reader’s attention to the present moment. As the girl grows, the man teaches her how to exist in their primitive world but inevitably, the girl asks him about her mother who passed away after childbirth and is buried on the nearby “mountain that stands alone,” which also resembles the image of a bear. These questions and the need to survive propel the man and the girl on several journeys—both practical and symbolic. For the man, a trip to the ocean for salt becomes his final one and for the girl, the journey home becomes a rite of passage into adulthood. She is aided by what she has been taught by her father, the spirit of her mother, and a bear who helps guide her home.