Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things.

Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept bees, headstrong Augusta marries shy, deferential Karl, twelve years her senior, and goes to live with him on his father's remote farm. Terrified that she will literally die from loneliness and isolation, she finds work in town, and for a short time, fulfillment with another man in a romance that will reverberate throughout her life. Not until many years later does she find her salvation in beekeeping, the practice she first learned from her mother. It is beekeeping that reconnects her to the world and at long last brings fire to her steadfast marriage.

Efter att ha läst "Hur man botar den som dödats av blixten" ville jag läsa mer av Gail Andersson-Dargatz.

Annual BC Convention 2013
Welcome to Sweden for the annual bookcrossing convention 2013

Picked this up from the BC-Convention in Gothenburg, not for myself, but for our local Bee-Lady oofiri, who keeps bees in the middle of Helsinki! Hopefully she hasn't read it already.

Greetings from Gothenburg! I hope you haven't read this before.

"Bee-Lady" is embarrassed to have forgotten to journal this lovely surprise. Many thanks, kirjakko and Deepswamp!

edit: wishlisted by Tarna

RABCK by mail to Tarna

What a lovely surprise! A Recipe for Bees has been on my wishlist as long as I've had a wishlist. I've wanted to read it since I started to read The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, more than 10 years ago. Never finished it, though. You know how it goes, for some reason you have to put aside the book you enjoy reading, and then you decide not to take it in your hands unless you're sure to have lots of time to savor well-written text... Yeah, you wish. But I do try to read this one a bit sooner.
Thank you so much, oofiri!

Gail Anderson-Dargatz at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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