![]() ![]() ![]() After the author’s mother took to her room and refused to deal with the kids, the author spent most of her nonschool hours with “Grandpa,” driving around in his old truck to inspect hives, learning about bees, and eventually assisting him to harvest honey in an old bus he had rigged up just for this purpose. Her troubled, emotionally distant mother moved her and her younger brother back to the rural home shared by her own mother and her mother's second husband, who tended beehives all over Carmel Valley in California. A moving memoir that tells the story of how helping her grandfather tend his beehives helped a girl survive a troubled childhood.įormer San Francisco Chronicle reporter May’s (co-author: I, Who Did Not Die, 2017) parents separated when she was 5. ![]()
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