Book Club: In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin

Friday, September 18: In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin

309 Social Sciences Building, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, drinks and light snacks provided 

Description: In August 2015, the French writer and anthropologist Nastassja Martin was on a two-week expedition in eastern Russia when she met a Kamchatka brown bear. Captivating and eminently readable, In the Eye has sold tens of thousands of copies in France. We meet Martin as she lies alone, severely injured in the taiga, hemmed in by volcanoes and awaiting evacuation by Russian army helicopter. Divided into the four seasons of the year to come, her narration roams peripatetically to relate her treatment and recovery, analyze her dreams, and retrace the steps that led to the expedition that led to the encounter—“the crisis of my life.”