Clan of the Cave Bear is about a young Cro-Magnon girl named Ayla who joins a clan of Neandrethals. It's a really great time if you ever speculate on what cave-life was like, back when everyone really was a hunter or gatherer. Auel also did a lot of research for this book, so for a lot of things, I imagine her telling it how it was. So maybe it was educational too.
I want to read the next books in the series and see what Ayla does with horses and cave paintings. I want to go back to simpler times. Speaking of simpler, I think Clan of the Cave Bear was far longer than it needed to be. Our characters spend a lot of time ruminating over what has happened and what it means to them, as if we might not imagine that on our own. It's a small gripe. Not every reader has a good memory or capacity to think about stories when they're not reading them. They also deserve to enjoy Clan of the Cave Bear.
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