The Bookies is the Goodwin Library’s Book Club! Join us this month to discuss The Bear by Andrew Krivak!
We will have multiple copies available for checkout – stop by to pick one up! New members are always welcome, and you do not have to have read/finished the book to participate in the discussion.
If you would like to attend virtually, please email Joyce at jwhite@goodwinlibrary.org. If you attend in person, you may want to arrive before 6:50pm, as that is when we lock our doors for the evening. Thank you!
Summary: 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.
