Synopses & Reviews
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age.
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"[S]eems much like its author mostly plainsong and no pretense." Patti Hagan, New York Times Book Review
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"Once in a while there comes along a book so calm, so honest, so beautiful that even the most jaded or cynical readers have to say thank you. This is such a book." San Diego Tribune
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"Steadily eloquent, not just of her life but of all life." Ivan Doig, Washington Post
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"Sue Hubbell's writing is like butter, for it tantalizes, enriches and satisfies." Atlantic Journal
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"A calm, clear-eyed record of a country year and its beauties." Los Angeles Times
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"Oh, my, can this lady write." Sports Illustrated
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"Hubbell's tales of bee-keeping in the Missouri Ozarks have a warm, conversational tone. A pragmatic conservationist, she refuses to treat the surrounding woods as a theme park attraction or an exploitable resource." Los Angeles Times Book Review
About the Author
Sue Hubbell is the author of, among other works, A Country Year and A Book of Bees, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Maine and Washington, D.C.