07/07/2025
July is and we are honoured to share an interview with award-winning Canadian author Bruce Hunter about his novel, In the Bear’s House (Frontenac House Press, 2025)—a tender and beautiful story of love, wildness, and disability.
“I first published In the Bear’s House in 2009. It sold well and won an award at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival where it was deemed a mountain classic. But the publisher disappeared as did my edited galleys. I gave up all hope of ever seeing it in print again. Then my neighbor, the gifted poet and editor, Elana Wolff read It. It speaks to our times, she said. You must get it out there.”
—Bruce Hunter
To read the full interview please visit our blog:
http://www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2025/5/21/power-q-amp-a-with-bruce-hunter
About In the Bear’s House:
The novel opens as seventeen-year-old Clare gives birth to her son, while her husband serves a penitentiary sentence for a serious crime. After contracting pneumonia, her infant son loses his hearing.
Later, the young boy, nicknamed Trout, struggles to find his way until his 99-year-old auntie gives him a conch shell. For Trout, the conch becomes a literal and metaphorical hearing aid. He cannot hear the sea in the shell. Instead, he hears the mad sworl of the adult world around him full of contradictions and deceptions. Out of chaos, he finds clarity.
Image ID: Headshot of a contemplative man with short grey and white hair and beard with a book titled “In The Bear’s House” by Bruce Hunter. Text reads “Power Q & A Bruce Hunter.” River Street logo present in bottom right corner.
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