The Clan of the Cave Bear

This breathtakingly beautiful and powerful book is a poignant story about people, relationships, and the limits of love. With the help of a girl named Ayla, we are transported to the harsh and breathtaking Ice Age world that the people who went by the name Clan of the Cave Bear shared. Jean M. Auel's amazing narrative transports us back to the start of modern humanity.

After a natural calamity, the little girl is left to fend for herself in a strange and hazardous area until a lady from the Clan, who are extremely different from her own kind, finds her. They find the blonde, blue-eyed Ayla strange and unattractive; she is one of the Others, people who have returned to their ancestral home. Nevertheless, Iza is unable to let the girl perish and brings her along. As Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's healing method, most of them come to accept her. Iza and Creb, the elderly Mog-ur, grow to adore her. She perceives her differences as a challenge to his power, however, when the violent and arrogant young man who will be their future leader takes that position. He becomes deeply and permanently hated by the weird girl of the Others who lives among them, and he vows to get retribution.