Black Bear
A Story of Siblinghood and Survival
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Black Bear
Narrateur(s):
Trina Moyles
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Trina Moyles
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Trina Moyles
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When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as “the bear guy,” brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings’ hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other.
After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout, while her brother worked in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. When she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful, wandering metres away on the other side of an electrified fence surrounding the tower. Over four summers, Trina begins to move beyond fear and observe the extraordinary essence of the maligned black bear—a keystone species who is as subject to the environmental consequences of the oil economy as humans. At the same time, she searches for common ground with her brother on the land that bonded them.
Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect the wild—along with the people we hold closest.
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“No other book has so accurately described the realities of growing up in rural Alberta in peak oil. . . . In beautiful aching prose, Trina shows us the effects that resource extraction has on the landscapes, the wildlife, and us as humans as we reckon with those realities.” —Conor Kerr, author of Prairie Edge
“There is so much conflict in the world. Oil extraction, climate change, wildlife management, the pandemic. . . . What if there is a way to co-exist? . . . . [Black Bear] is a heart-rending and timely story about how relationships can evolve. I loved it.” —Claire Cameron, author of How to Survive a Bear Attack
“This may be the best book I’ve ever read about the things that live in our hearts while haunting our nights. Brilliant writing that sometimes brought me to tears . . . I can’t stop thinking about it.” —Kevin Van Tighem, author of Bears Without Fear
“How do we find hope in the midst of acute social and ecological crises? We find it together, Moyles suggests. That which threatens to tear us apart might instead lead us back to each other, Black Bear shows us, even when the danger is right at our door.” —Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains
“Impeccably written. . . . A unique and unmatched window into what it means to be Canadian in the 21st century. It is the inextricable bonds between work, environment, family, grief, animals, fear, and loneliness.” —Lyndsie Bourgon, author of Tree Thieves
“A beautifully wrought meditation on fear, kinship and coexistence.” —Omar Mouallem, author of Praying to the West
“There is so much conflict in the world. Oil extraction, climate change, wildlife management, the pandemic. . . . What if there is a way to co-exist? . . . . [Black Bear] is a heart-rending and timely story about how relationships can evolve. I loved it.” —Claire Cameron, author of How to Survive a Bear Attack
“This may be the best book I’ve ever read about the things that live in our hearts while haunting our nights. Brilliant writing that sometimes brought me to tears . . . I can’t stop thinking about it.” —Kevin Van Tighem, author of Bears Without Fear
“How do we find hope in the midst of acute social and ecological crises? We find it together, Moyles suggests. That which threatens to tear us apart might instead lead us back to each other, Black Bear shows us, even when the danger is right at our door.” —Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains
“Impeccably written. . . . A unique and unmatched window into what it means to be Canadian in the 21st century. It is the inextricable bonds between work, environment, family, grief, animals, fear, and loneliness.” —Lyndsie Bourgon, author of Tree Thieves
“A beautifully wrought meditation on fear, kinship and coexistence.” —Omar Mouallem, author of Praying to the West
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