“But we don’t get to choose when we leave here to sleep on the mountain. We all have to sleep on the mountain one day. Even the bear. Even when we struggle with all our will not to.”
~the bear
“… She lay on the ground beneath a warm sun and wondered if world and time itself were like the hawk and eagle soaring above her in long arcs she knew were only part of their flight, for they must have begun and returned to someplace as of yet unseen by her, someplace as of yet unknown.”
~The bear
“She said she hoped that would be a long time, for there was one more story yet to tell, the ending of which neither he nor she would ever know.”
~THE bEAR
The Walpole Town Library, in partnership with New Hampshire Humanities (NHH), is participating in the statewide NEA Big Read of The Bear by Andrew Krivak from 9/1/23- 11/30/2023. Free copies of the book are available at the library. Ebooks and audiobooks are available on the Libby App. Click HERE to learn more about The Big Read
The Library will host the following Big Read programs:
~Wednesday, September 27, 6:00 pm
Movie: The Biggest Little Farm
~Wednesday, October 4, 7:00 pm
Book Discussion with Alice Fogel
~Thursday, October 12, 7:00 pm
Bears of North America with Helen Dalbeck
~Saturday, October 14, 10:00 am
Kids Program: Bears of New Hampshire with Helen Dalbeck
Andrew Krivak is the author of The Bear, a Mountain Book Competition winner, Massachusetts Book Award winner, and NEA Big Read selection; and the Dardan Trilogy, which includes The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses. He is also the author of the poetry collection Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves and the memoir A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, as well as the editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902–1912, which received the Louis L. Martz Prize. Krivak lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the shadow of Mount Monadnock, which inspired much of the landscape in The Bear.
NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
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