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Author:
Helen Jukes
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Date:
May 5, 2020
An up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive, watching and capturing the complex universe of honeybees, and learning an altogether different way of being in the world.
What The Reviewers Say
... a surprising book, even an astonishing one, overcoming all those initial concerns in its luminously honest and affecting first chapter. Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and her book ought to become a key text of this bright moment in our history of nature writing. I was reminded of William Fiennes’s The Snow Geese and Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun, but these resonances should not obscure the uniqueness of a book that quietly, beautifully, rewired my heart as I read it.
... if you can’t literally sink into a honey-sweet bee colony, sinking into Helen Jukes’ A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees is surely the next best thing.
Jukes’s account of her year of keeping bees meets all the demands of the new nature-writing genre.
Once the bees arrive, the pace of the year picks up. As a reader, I found myself sneaking away to check on Helen and her bees. There is something magical about these creatures that seem so domesticated, but are not. And there is a magic to this book, as well..
