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Bear Medicine
Bear Medicine
Bear Medicine
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Bear Medicine

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When Brooke sets off on a trail in Yellowstone National Park to train for an upcoming marathon, she is savagely attacked by a grizzly bear. One hundred forty years earlier, Anne accompanies her husband on a camping trip in the nation's first national park and awakens one morning to find he's been captured by Nez Perce warriors. Both women encounter a frightening but sacred landscape; both fall under the care of American Indian women. Ultimately, Brooke and Anne must each find her path to physical and psychological survival.


Alternating between contemporary and historical times, Bear Medicine is a story about women helping women in a complicated, male-dominated world.

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Release dateOct 14, 2017
ISBN9780996103879
Bear Medicine
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G. Elizabeth Kretchmer

G. Elizabeth Kretchmer is the author of The Damnable Legacy of A Minister's Wife, an exciting new novel about love and survival that straddles between the worlds of literary and women's fiction. Her short fiction, essays, and freelance work have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times, High Desert Journal, Silk Road Review, SLAB, and other publications. She holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. When she’s not writing, she's facilitating therapeutic and wellness writing workshops or spending time in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three sons, and a Labradoodle named Lani. Visit her website at www.gekretchmer.com.

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