Julia Phillips:
BEAR
by Julia Phillips (Scribe, $37)
"So who will rescue her from her captivity? Not a prince, but the capitalist dream.
In her second novel, Julia Phillips has written the great American post-pandemic parable. No, it’s not “The Bear” of the acclaimed TV series, it’s an actual fantasy bear, inspired by the “gruesome, bloody and hypnotising” fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red, which haunted Phillips’ childhood.
In the Grimm brothers’ telling, a bear knocks on the door of a
