The Last Human Bear
Cussed, choleric and often consumed by remorse, Mary is fascinating without being sympathetic. Mr. Sarris has fashioned for her a rough-hewn, splintery narrative voice ... About the inescapability of inheritance, and it is only in delivering her sprawling confessions that Mary begins to accept the powers passed down to her.
A sprawling bildungsroman, complex and intricate ... [An] astonishing story.
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[A] well-written novel about an unstoppable heroine who defies multiple cultures to build a life of her own.
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