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PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated

ISBN-101982646756

ISBN-139781982646752

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038577212

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Book TitleHoney Bus : a Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees

TopicAnimals / Insects & Spiders, Agriculture / Beekeeping, Personal Memoirs

Publication Year2019

LanguageEnglish

GenreNature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMeredith May

FormatCompact Disc

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsJournalist May, a fifth-generation beekeeper in San Francisco, delivers a powerful account of growing up in 1970s California...May's chronicle of overcoming obstacles and forging ahead is moving and thoughtful., A moving memoir...A fascinating and hopeful book of family, bees, and how 'even when [children] are overwhelmed with despair, nature has special ways to keep them safe.', If Meredith May's book was simply an ethology of bees I would devour every word; her prose is tender, thoughtful and transporting. But The Honey Bus is so much more - a memoir of aching loneliness, reckoning and redemption. Beautiful and brave.

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal638.1092

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisAn extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature's most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees.May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May's childhood that she learned to take care of herself, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May's life, teaching her about family and community, loyalty and survival, and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.