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A review by kris_mccracken
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
4.0
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
A grandly sweeping epic set sometime between 28,000 and 25,000 BCE, in which Auel chooses to explore the corrosive nature of patriarchy through the lens of an abandoned Cro-Magnon girl’s assimilation into a band of Neanderthals at a time of their accelerating demise.
The story’s structure is far more effective than it has any right to be. The sensitive portrayal of the Neanderthal provides a glimpse of humanity that is equally effective as it is surprising. Notably, the good guys are inherently good, and in Broud – the resentful, sullen and bullying progeny of the clan’s leader – Auel has constructed a loathsome bad guy of epic proportions.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
A grandly sweeping epic set sometime between 28,000 and 25,000 BCE, in which Auel chooses to explore the corrosive nature of patriarchy through the lens of an abandoned Cro-Magnon girl’s assimilation into a band of Neanderthals at a time of their accelerating demise.
The story’s structure is far more effective than it has any right to be. The sensitive portrayal of the Neanderthal provides a glimpse of humanity that is equally effective as it is surprising. Notably, the good guys are inherently good, and in Broud – the resentful, sullen and bullying progeny of the clan’s leader – Auel has constructed a loathsome bad guy of epic proportions.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐