Bear

This was everything I expected and more. It's an erotic tale of a woman and a bear, it won a big Canadian literary award in the 70ies and since then has been a forgotten controversy or maybe a well-kept secret. It's resurfacing again now, hopefully reaching proper cult novel status. Just googling the cover art for this book is worthwhile. It's not just about a sexual encounter between woman and bear, it's about solitude, romanticism (the poets), wilderness, colonization, feminism, sexual freedom, and the reinvigoration of one's spirit.