Bearīack in the 1970s, Canadian novelist Marian Engel’s Bear was hailed as a feminist classic in the making. It’s all detailed in her memoir, a determined, engaging foray into narrative nonfiction whose grit is balanced by homely, transporting delights, such as fried chicken and vanilla ice-cream cones. Cooking would prove to be her salvation, ultimately leading to a restaurant of her own that’s put Freedom on the foodie map – but not before she’d weathered a toxic marriage, a prescription-pill addiction and a long battle to regain custody of her son. She had her sights set on escape, but returned to work in the kitchen of her father’s diner after becoming pregnant a year into her medicine degree. Growing up, Erin French’s hometown of Freedom, Maine, was the kind of place you passed through on your way to somewhere bigger.
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