![]() ![]() What she is not told is that this collection includes a bear chained up in the front yard, theoretically tamed by its previous owner.Īs the (weirdly steamy) cover is eager to communicate, the protagonist and the bear form what I’m choosing to call a deeply primal relationship – making this one of the internet’s favourite examples of weird Canadian literature. The house and everything in it has just been left to the government archive, and she is tasked with organizing all of it – from the living room doilies to the trunks of loose papers in the basement. The premise: A librarian travels to a huge, empty house in the Canadian wilderness to catalogue a dusty, ancient library. ![]() Bear is a parable of female sexuality – an intense and shocking allegory, sure, but there is so much more you can do with this novel than read it as a literal account of bestiality. It is, in fact, about a woman who has sex with a bear.īut to stop at that description does the novel an enormous disservice. ![]() Whenever I mention reading this book, I’m met with the same snide response: Isn’t that the book about the woman who has sex with a bear ?Īnd I mean, that’s not wrong. ![]() I often see this novel dismissed as ridiculous and racy in the wrong way after all, bestiality is one of the sexual taboos that has retained its power across time and cultural difference. … she was still not satisfied that this was how the only life she had been offered should be lived. ![]()
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