“安德鲁·克里瓦克用简洁而可爱的文字，将尘封的过去和遥远的未来折叠成一个非凡的寓言，讲述了人类在精神和动物世界和谐回归的过程中所继承的遗产。这个故事会在很长一段时间里萦绕在你的脑海中，就像冰层下的河流。”
----亚当·约翰森（Adam Johnson），《孤儿领袖的儿子》（The Orphan Master’s Son）和《幸运的微笑》（Fortune Smiles）的作者
“阅读《熊》这本书，会让你回忆起充满奇迹的童年经历，那些挥之不去的印记，改变了我们对这个世界的理解，把我们塑造成我们现在的样子。这就是克里瓦克出人意料且充满希望的小说所具有的简单而深刻的力量。这本精心构思的书就像一张最好的橡木弓，它既经典永恒，又充满张力，既清晰又温柔，既有原型又非传统，它是一个先知讲述的睡前故事。这本身就是一个奇迹。”
----乔什·韦伊（Josh Weil），《新山谷》（The New Valley）和《永恒光明的时代》（The Age of Perpetual Light）的作者
“[A] tender apocalyptic fable . . . endowed with such fullness of meaning that you have to assign this short, touching book its own category: the post-apocalypse utopia.” —Wall Street Journal
“A moving post-apocalyptic fable for grown-ups… Krivak delivers no small amount of poetry himself … A literary rejoinder of sorts to Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us (2007), Krivak’s slender story assures us that even without humans, the world will endure… it makes for a splendid thought exercise and a lovely fable-cum-novel. Ursula K. Le Guin would approve.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Engagingly different… the narrative unfolds in graceful, luminous prose… Poignant but not tragic, this end-of-civilization story shows that there’s no loneliness in this world when we are one with nature.” —Library Journal, Starred Review
“With artistry and grace, National Book Award–finalist Krivak (The Sojourn) offers a story of endurance and a return to life with nature in a postapocalyptic world… This beautiful and elegant novel is a gem.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“[Krivak’s] sentences are polished stones of wonder. . . . The elegiac tone reflects what is lost and what will be lost, an enchantment as if Wendell Berry had reimagined Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” —Booklist
“The Bear is a luminous book of a standard one sees perhaps once every generation…. As [it] tenderly breaks your heart, piece by piece, it fills that void with something powerful and timeless. Written with precision, clarity, and gentle fluidity, The Bear reminds us that all we need to know awaits us in the wild.” —Mountain Book Competition Jury citation