The Honey Bus
A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
Park Row Books · Print & ebook · March 17, 2020
An unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life.
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- Who it’s for
- A childhood memoir where beekeeping becomes a way to understand family, survival, and self-reliance.
- Themes
- Family and belonging, Beekeeping, Survival and self-reliance
- Genres
- Personal Memoirs, Insects & Spiders, Beekeeping
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An unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places, and how a tiny, little-understood insect could save a life. 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.
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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. The bees became a guiding force in May’s life, teaching her about family and survival, and it was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself. Part family story, part beekeeping odyssey, The Honey Bus is a rich and lyrical memoir of a girl who journeyed into the hive—and found herself.
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A childhood memoir where beekeeping becomes a way to understand family, survival, and self-reliance.
Come here for
- A family story seen through the secret world of bees
- The unusual bond between a girl and her beekeeper grandfather
Expect
- A lyrical memoir shaped by loss and discovery
- Beekeeping woven into a story of growing up
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 93% |
|---|---|
| Insects & Spiders | 58% |
| Beekeeping | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cultural Heritage Lives
- Women's Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- Survival Stories
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- Aging & Later Life
- Grief & Loss
- Conservation
- Insects & Spiders
- Authors
- Meredith May
- Publisher
- Park Row Books
- Published
- March 17, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Family and belonging · Beekeeping · Survival and self-reliance
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives