Bear Woman is the story of Karolina Ramqvist's obsession with the history of Marguerite de la Rocque.

I received this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a fair review.

This is a memoir of Swedish novelist, Karolina Ramqvist's time writing and researching the story of Marguerite de la Rocque, a French noble woman abandoned on a small island north of Nova Scotia in 1542. Translated from the original Swedish by Saskia Vogel.

The writing feels disjointed and aimless; Ramqvist frequently floats from one thought to the next, without developing on them. The glimpses into the possible life (there's not a lot of records about her life available) of Marguerite and interesting and it seems like an extraordinary story, unfortunately, we don't get to see much of it in this book.