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The selection for the 2024 NEA Big Read in Lake County is The Bear by Andrew Krivak, originally published in 2020 by Bellevue Literary Press. The Bear was chosen as an NEA Big Read selection in 2022-23, and is also a Banff Mountain Book Competition Winner, and a winner of the Massachusetts Book Awards.
From the Publisher: "In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But 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. A cautionary tale of human fragility, of love and loss, The Bear is a stunning tribute to the beauty of nature’s dominion." Free copies of The Bear will be available first come, first serve at public libraries and at Big Read events during late 2024.
You can also find copies of The Bear, in digital, print, and audiobook formats on the Public Library catalog here. |
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NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
El proyecto NEA Big Read es una iniciativa del National Endowment for the Arts (el Fondo Nacional para las Artes de Estados Unidos) en cooperación con Arts Midwest. |
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