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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