Bear Medicine

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.