BLACK BEAR
COMING 2025
Knopf Canada
A unique and revelatory book about coexisting with black bears. The specificity of Moyles’s observations of her bear neighbours—or family, as she comes to see them—are especially compelling, as is the sense of her evolution from a position of wariness to one of wonder and connection. This emotional arc, threaded with research and historical context for bear ‘management’ in North America, offers the reader a personal and intellectual sense of discovery.
As this new awareness unfolds, and Moyles must contend with a profound loss – the death of her brother – we understand the consequences of painful divides. Through grief, discovery, healing, and a sensitive exploration of her complicated sibling, she illuminates the way that fear and judgment separate us from ourselves and each other, and moves toward new conceptions of intimacy and acceptance. With the visceral honesty, poetic language and quality of immediacy that characterized Lookout, Moyles guides readers into the world of Ursus americanus.
- Coming 2025 -