Carole B. reviewed on 12/31/2006 + 42 more book reviews

deborah smith is always a good read. on bear mountain the powell family has lived dirt poor for generations. Then, during the 1960's, young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, oweners of everything in nerarby Tiberville, to commission a huge iron sculpture of a bear for the town. Decades later the strange sculpture rejected by the townspeople and left to rust on the Powell farm- symbolizes a family's failure and thwarted dreams. But, unknown to Ursula, it is now worth such a huge fortune that the artist's reclaim it... and to change everything Ursula believes about the past, the choices that break a heart, and the redeeming powers of art and love.

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