The Bear (Krivak) - Book Reviews

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(Starred review) [Written] With artistry and grace…. Krivak delivers a transcendent journey into a world where all living things—humans, animals, trees—coexist in magical balance, forever telling each other’s unique stories. This beautiful and elegant novel is a gem.
Publishers Weekly


(Starred review) Most postapocalyptic novels bury us in blood or debris, but Krivak offers a completely different understanding of humans at the end of the line.… Poignant but not tragic, this … story shows that there's no loneliness in this world when we are one with nature. —Barbara Hoffert
Library Journal


[Krivak’s] sentences are polished stones of wonder.… The elegiac tone reflects what is lost and what will be lost, an enchantment as if Wendell Berry had reimagined Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Booklist


(Starred review) A moving post-apocalyptic fable for grown-ups.… Krivak's slender story assures us that even without humans, the world will endure… It makes for a splendid thought exercise and a lovely fable-cum-novel. Ursula K. Le Guin would approve. An effective, memorable tale.
Kirkus Reviews