Bear War-den Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

A woman park warden who works in a Rocky Mountain National Park spends her time on such tasks as bear patrol locating tourists who are lost or in other physical danger and policing park rules She has a particular affinity for grizzly bears largely stemming from an experience she had in a Neolithic cave in Spain During her work and her travels she observes various ways in which bears are mistreated in parks sometimes even by researchers with seemingly good intentions While an outofcontrol fire rages through the national park the woman park warden with two grizzly bear skulls in hand begins a difficult and dreamlike journey to the park boundarywhere wild animals can seem like ghosts and trauma can strike as suddenly as lightning One of the grizzly skulls the one that was given to her begins to talk to her Told in an experimental style that mixes realism and magical realism and interrupted by the voice of a bear Bear Warden explores themes of personal and ecological loss trauma and of women and nonhuman animals dealing with oppression within a maledominated and often paramilitarylike Parks Management system