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43/100Critics
93/100Scholars
Author:
Nastassja Martin, Sophie R. Lewis
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Date:
November 16, 2021
After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human.
What The Reviewers Say
[A] haunting, genre-defying memoir.
[A] slim, stirring book.
[Martin's] story to begin with is simple, and beautifully gruesome.
Martin’s narrative, with the bones of a personal essay and the lift of a prose poem, reciprocates the creature’s failed act of incorporation, and hunts for beauty in what remains occluded and apart. The result is heady and obsessive, as Martin smashes again and again against the limits of what anyone can know.
