In her debut memoir\, bestselling author C laire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event&mdash\;a predatory bear attack.
\nWhen Cameron was nine years old\, her father told her he was dying. In the years after he was gone\, she overcame her grief among t he rivers and lakes of Algonquin Park. Around that same time\, in 1991\, a couple was killed in a rare predatory black bear attack in the park&mdash \;an event that shocked and haunted her.
\nYears later\, she was dia gnosed with the same deadly skin cancer as her father and told to avoid ex posure to UV light. Caught in another wave a grief and no longer able to v enture into the wilderness\, she again became obsessed with the bear attac k in Algonquin Park. How could terror rip through such a beautiful place? Could she separate truth from fiction? She headed north to investigate.
\nSeamlessly weaving together nature writing with true crime investiga tion in this unflinching account of recovery\, How to Survive a Bear A ttack is at once an intimate portrait of an extraordinary animal\, a bracing chronicle of pain\, obsession\, and love\, and a profoundly moving exploration of how we can understand and survive the wildness that lives inside us.
\nA Different Drummer Books will be on site with books fo r sale and signing after the talk.
\nPresented in partnership with K nopf Canada
\nClaire Cameron's first nove l\, \;The Line Painter\, won the Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service and was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Crime Writin g Award for best first novel. \;Her subsequent bestselling novels incl ude The Bear\, which was long-listed for the 2014 Baileys Women&r squo\;s Prize for Fiction\, and The Last Neanderthal\, a finalist for the Rogers Writers&rsquo\; Trust Fiction Prize. She is a staff writer at The Millions.
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