#  A Small Press Book We Love: The Bear by Andrew Krivak 

 





March 13, 2025

 

 

"Not enough people have read this achingly beautiful novel about the last man on earth and the final journey he takes with his daughter to the sea. Told as a mesmerizing fable, with all the poetry and none of the melodrama, The Bear comes to terms quickly with its own premise: someday, we too, will go extinct, and all of human history will blink out as our distant descendant, our endling, takes her last breath.  
  
Krivak, it is clear, has spent a lifetime making his way through forest and field, and his descriptive prose is deep and rich, without being showy—much like the very old eastern mountains in which the novel takes place. During a trip to the coast to gather salt it soon becomes clear that the father is dying; as such, he makes sure to leave his daughter with the skills she’ll need to carry on living, the last of her kind in a world that will go on without her, without us."   
  
Read more [here](https://lithub.com/a-small-press-book-we-love-the-bear-by-andrew-krivak/).



 

 

 



 

 

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