![]() ![]() Following Lucy’s advice, in the next chapter Lou “gingerly tiptoe to the bear’s cabin, hunkered by its wall, and with some difficulty moved her bowels meagerly” (38). Lucy Leroy advises Lou to “Shit with the bear…He like you, then. There’s an old indigenous woman in the text named Lucy Leroy, who is described as “a toothless old Indian crone in many cardigans and running shoes” (36). That’s right, the lady and the bear have a romantic relationship. One lonely librarian, one sexy mature bear, an isolated house in the Canadian woods. Lou is stranded most of the time, and she begins to seek the company of the bear out of curiosity and boredom. The current bear is older, probably in his thirties (slightly older than Lou), and it spends its days chained in the backyard. SO there have been bears at this house since it was first built. One last thing about the house, there’s a fucking BEAR. The house doesn’t have electricity or anything, and it’s completely isolated–only reachable by boat. ![]() ![]() My own plot synopsis: a lonely, somewhat depressed woman in her late-twenties named Lou works for a historical conservation library in Canada, and she is tasked with spending a summer at a historical house in the deep woods on a riverine island to categorize the remaining items in the house, which was once owned by a fancy British Colonel who had the house built in the 1800s. ![]() The copy that I purchased from Thrift Books is a TIGHT 122 pages divided into 22 spare yet somehow resplendent chapters. Bear by Marian Engel is a Canadian novel published in 1976. ![]()
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