Bear by Engel, Marian [Paperback]

If you know anything about this book, you know what made my curiosity get the better of me.

Beyond that, not much happens. Lou is a lonely, dysfunctional archivist in Toronto and has to go north to a really remote, rural, islandy area of Canada to go through the possibly historical house of weird English gentry immigrants. She farts around and catalogues the stuff in the house. And has sex with the old family bear.

She's not particularly nice or sympathetic, and she takes advantage of the bear's docility. She mightn't be the first? I'm not sure, but there's another character obsessed with the poor bear.

It's short. That's the best thing about it.