A Recipe for Bees

Gail AndersonDargatzs evocative novel of one womans simple but passionatelylived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact andsimple natur... » 

Gail AndersonDargatzs evocative novel of one womans simple but passionatelylived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact andsimple natural things.Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept beesheadstrong Augusta marries shy deferential Karl twelve years her senior andgoes to live with him on his fathers remote farm. Terrified that she willliterally die from loneliness and isolation she finds work in town and for ashort time fulfillment with another man in a romance that will reverberatethroughout her life. Not until many years later does she find her salvation inbeekeeping the practice she first learned from her mother. It is beekeepingthat reconnects her to the world and at long last brings fire to her steadfastmarriage. «