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One of the all time great works of Canadian literature. A woman leaves her post as librarian in the city to accept a job cataloguing works at an old colonial estate in the North. She is forced to confront the tension between the settler imperative to dominate nature and nature's resistance to that domination. The way that the Canadian state tries to reduce everything to information that it can order and sort, but that the land itself is far too vigourous and varied for those representations to ever be accurate. As she tries to escape the horrible stultifyingness of English Canadian culture she does not realize she just ends up trying to replicate those same patterns of (attempted) domination. That's right, goons. It's 
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i'm gonna second my fellow canucklefuck: it may be a meme, but Bear is also an excellent novel. not sure how meaningful it'll be if you're not Canadian but if you are it's a+
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did not post the correct book cover, I rate this thread a 3/5
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vyelkin posted:did not post the correct book cover, I rate this thread a 3/5 Now I will read your book.
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Apr 2, 2023 14:39
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vyelkin posted:did not post the correct book cover, I rate this thread a 3/5 
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I read this last year on Arivia’s recommendation. It’s sincerely good! I think there’s something for everyone here, even if the Canadian context is lost on you. The transition into chapter 3 had me laughing out loud. ”Have you heard about the bear?” Followed by a chapter that’s only 2.5 pages long, pitch perfect babbling of a guy telling you something he knows he needs to tell you but doesn’t really want you to ask any questions okay have fun BYE.
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