From National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable about a father and daughter, Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and the bear that becomes the girl’s companion as she navigates her way home alone through a vast wilderness. Marlon James has described Krivak’s work as “incandescent,” Jesmyn Ward lauds his “singular talent,” and Mary Doria Russell calls him “a writer of rare and powerful elegance.” With The Bear, Krivak delivers a transcendent novel of human fragility, of love and loss, filled with grace notes and epiphanic moments about the beauty of nature’s dominion and coming of age during dark times—one that underscores the New York Times praise for Krivak as an author with a “deep awareness of the natural world” and Richard Russo’s prediction that Krivak is “destined for great things.”