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“Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard.” So begins Lisa O’Donnell’s novel about two sisters who find their parents dead and, instead of reporting it, decide to keep it a secret until they can make it on their own. The Death of Bees is not for the faint of heart, but it is a beautiful, haunting, coming of age tale that is fa ...more
“Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard.” So begins Lisa O’Donnell’s novel about two sisters who find their parents dead and, instead of reporting it, decide to keep it a secret until they can make it on their own. The Death of Bees is not for the faint of heart, but it is a beautiful, haunting, coming of age tale that is fa ...more