The Bear

In "The Bear, " the first of three novellas to comprise her forthcoming "Wilderness Trilogy," a sensible mid-level insurance adjuster, revisiting his childhood summer camp, meets his nemesis in the form of a headstrong and unaccountable bear. By turns antic, poignant, wry, "The Bear" offers an artful meditation on the crisis of otherness and the unreckoned cost of control.

"A riot." --Annie Dillard