Author: Marian Engel

This is a rather odd book although it won the Governor General’s Award for Literature in 1976. Basically it is the story of the summer Lou, a librarian, spent on a remote island cataloguing a personal library that was donated to the Institute. Part of her duties while living and working in the home was looking after the bear that lived in one of the shacks behind the house. Over the summer the relationship between the bear and Lou moves from fear and indifference to something completely different.

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