LOST IN THE BEEHIVE

From the author of Above Us Only Sky comes a touching new novel set in the 1960s about the power of friendship, love, and accepting your past in order to find a future.

For nearly her entire life, Gloria Ricci has been followed by bees. They're there when her mother loses twin children; when she first meets a neighborhood girl named Isabel, who brings out feelings in her that she knows she shouldn't have; and when her parents, desperate to "help" her, bring her to the Belmont Institute, whose glossy brochures promise healing and peace. She tells no one, but their hum follows her as she struggles to survive against the Institute's cold and damaging methods, as she meets an outspoken and unapologetic fellow patient
named Sheffield Schoeffler, and as they run away, toward the freewheeling and accepting glow of 1960s Greenwich Village, where they create their own kind of family among the artists and wanderers who frequent the jazz bars and side streets.

As Gloria tries to outrun her past, experiencing profound love and loss and encountering a host of unlikely characters, the bees remain. It's only when she needs them most that Gloria discovers why they're there.

A blend of literary and commercial storytelling, Lost in the Beehive deals with the issues of acceptance and otherness through the life of a complicated heroine who forms a powerful bond with a man who is her foil, but also quite damaged. It is an extraordinarily poignant novel about the moments that teach us, the places that shape us, and the people who change us.