In an Edenic future, a girl and her father, the last of humankind, live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. 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. Recipient of the 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Fiction and Poetry, The Bear is Andrew Krivák’s cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, and stunning tribute to the beauty of nature’s dominion.