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From the author of Above Us Only Sky and The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, 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.



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Michele Young-Stone

Michele Young-Stone is the author of LOST IN THE BEEHIVE (2018) , ABOVE US ONLY SKY (2015) , and THE HANDBOOK FOR LIGHTNING STRIKE SURVIVORS (2010) . Her prose have been described as magical and inventive. At age 30, Michele decided to quit teaching and write the book she'd been dreaming of writing since she was seven years old. So far, she's written three.

Michele currently resides in the Outer Banks with her husband, son, dog, and a bearded dragon named Harry Potter.



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