Book Review - Pepsi Bears and Other Short Stories by Anson Cameron

In the title story (Pepsi Bears), an enterprising advertising executive reasons that everyone loves polar bears and is interested in them because of global warming, so why not use all that white fur for advertisements? Unfortunately, bears emblazoned with ads no longer blend into the landscape and seals can see them kilometres away. As the bears get hungrier they migrate south in search of food and have to adapt to the proximity of humans and find different prey!
This collection is difficult to categorise. At first it seems to be humourous but there is a darker side to the stories, making us examine our relationship to animals and how we exploit them. Anson Cameron is a clever satirist, using animals as an analogy of our society’s quirks.
Recommended by Janet

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