An Evening with Author Claire Cameron

Claire Cameron, a Canadian writer residing in Toronto, will read from her recently published novel, The Bear. The Bear is based on her experience leading a trip through Algonquin Park a year after the bear attack on Lake Openongo of October 11, 1991, which ended in the death of two adults. The stories she heard continued to haunt her years later and eventually became the basis for The Bear. 

In The Bear, Cameron re-imagines the events of October 1991 by adding two small children into the mix. It is a bestseller in Canada and was recently long listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize). Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Friends of the Belmont Library.