Customer Reviews
Great read!
Written by an outdoorswoman who loves black bears, this memoir is an attempt to better understand these fascinating creatures by re-telling in a compelling manner the true story of a black bear that attacked and killed a couple in Algonquin Park. The author wants to better understand why the black bear did what it did. The black bear is also a metaphor for the health challenges the author is facing. It is a good read, and I learned more about black bears in the process. The structure made for a compelling read, as if one were reading a mystery novel.
This was an interesting novel that explores surviving a cancer diagnosis from an avid hiker. As bears are making their way towards suburban areas, I found the information about their hibernation, mating, and food intake very interesting . The book reads like fiction and her “cancer attack” weaves seamlessly into her story.
expected much moreseemed like a therapy session for the author( sorry about your disease )title is misleading ( no tips on bear survival) and the ending is quite obtuse.I wanted to like this book...didn't..sorry
I didn't want this book to end. It's more than a memoir, more than a nature story. It's a beautiful remembrance of a father, a little girl missing her father, and the same woman as a mother - now with children of her own - living with a scary diagnosis. At the same time, she goes back to take a closer look at a 1991 bear attack in a national park in Canada, a place she knows well from her own time as a guide there. It's hard to do justice to this special book. I highly recommend it!
