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Simon & Schuster
August 2009
On Sale: August 4, 2009
416 pages
ISBN: 1416596240
EAN: 9781416596240
Hardcover
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Fantasy
Raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in
mirrors, Meridia grows up lonely and miserable. But at age
sixteen, she has a chance at happiness when she falls in
love with Daniel-a caring and naive young man. Soon they
marry, and Meridia can finally escape to live with her
husband's family, unaware that they harbor dark secrets of
their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden, there
are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other,
and there is Eva-the formidable matriarch and the
wickedest mother-in-law imaginable-whose grievances swarm
the air in an army of bees. As Meridia struggles to keep
her life and marriage together, she discovers long-buried
secrets about her own past as well as shocking truths
about her new family that inexorably push her love,
courage, and sanity to the brink. Of Bees and
Mist is an engrossing fable that chronicles three
generations of women under one family tree over a period
of thirty years-their galvanic love and passion, their
shifting alliances, their superstitions and complex
domestic politics-and places them in a mythical town where
spirits and spells, witchcraft and demons, and prophets
and clairvoyance are an everyday reality. Erick Setiawan's
astonishing debut is a richly atmospheric and tumultuous
ride of hope and heartbreak that is altogether touching,
truthful, and entirely memorable.
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Re: Of Bees and Mist
sounds truly intriguing and the cover is beautiful
(Maya Missani 12:25pm July 20, 2009)
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