The bear

I was having trouble with this at first. But now I think it's beautiful. I love that it's not one of those stories of how cruel nature is and how much you have to defend yourself against it. It's a story of how this girl's surroundings really, really want to see her alive and well, and help as much as they can to get her through a hard winter.

Feels like it’s missing something, though I’m not sure what. It’s not a bad book at all, and Krivak’s prose is both elegant and succinct when it needs to be. I think I was just expecting something a bit more drilled down as opposed to a cursory fable.