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The hive
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- Book Synopsis
- 2021 Indie Best Contest Winner 2021 Finalist for American Book Fest's for Best Book AwardA 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner for Best Cover DesignA 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Second NovelRural Missouri, a hot summer day on the Mississippi River during the Great Recession. The four Fehler sisters want to be more than “bug girls” in their family's fourth-generation pest control business, but their path is fixed. When the patriarch suddenly dies, and his succession goes according to plan but not expectation, they each must plot a course for themselves in uncertain and changing times. Through it all, their mother, Grace, weighs her own choices, and whether her passion to save her family as a doomsday prepper also includes blowing up her world with a forbidden romance. In their small town and around the dinner table, the Fehlers embody Midwestern resilience as they come together to save the company's finances and the family's future, and work to preserve what they have by evolving as a hive. Once again, Flood author Melissa Scholes Young has readers buzzing with the story of an unforgettable family, grieving, and rising again.
- About The Author
- Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood and the editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity—two anthologies by women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Ms., Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and the Believer. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, the Center for Mark Twain Studies' Quarry Farm Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is an associate professor in Literature at American University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781684426447
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Keylight Books, (07 July 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 302
- Weight
- 372 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 22 mm
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