The Hive
Seiten
2022
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-68442-644-7 (ISBN)
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-68442-644-7 (ISBN)
The Hive is a story of survival, sisters, and secrets. The Fehler family’s four daughters and their newly widowed, doomsday prepper mother struggle to keep their pest control business from bankruptcy during a recession. Set in a racially and politically divided rural Midwestern town during the Obama years, The Hive shows feminism rising from rural roots.
2021 Indie Best Contest Winner
2021 Finalist for American Book Fest’s for Best Book Award
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner for Best Cover Design
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Second Novel
Rural Missouri, a hot summer day on
the Mississippi River during the Great Recession. The four Fehler sisters want
to be more than “bug girls” in their family’s fourth-generation pest control
business, but their path is fixed. When the patriarch suddenly dies, and his
succession goes according to plan but not expectation, they each must plot a
course for themselves in uncertain and changing times. Through it all, their
mother, Grace, weighs her own choices, and whether her passion to save her
family as a doomsday prepper also includes blowing up her world with a
forbidden romance.
In their small town and around the
dinner table, the Fehlers embody Midwestern resilience as they come together to
save the company’s finances and the family’s future, and work to preserve what
they have by evolving as a hive. Once again, Flood author Melissa Scholes Young has
readers buzzing with the story of an unforgettable family, grieving, and rising
again.
2021 Indie Best Contest Winner
2021 Finalist for American Book Fest’s for Best Book Award
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner for Best Cover Design
A 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Best Second Novel
Rural Missouri, a hot summer day on
the Mississippi River during the Great Recession. The four Fehler sisters want
to be more than “bug girls” in their family’s fourth-generation pest control
business, but their path is fixed. When the patriarch suddenly dies, and his
succession goes according to plan but not expectation, they each must plot a
course for themselves in uncertain and changing times. Through it all, their
mother, Grace, weighs her own choices, and whether her passion to save her
family as a doomsday prepper also includes blowing up her world with a
forbidden romance.
In their small town and around the
dinner table, the Fehlers embody Midwestern resilience as they come together to
save the company’s finances and the family’s future, and work to preserve what
they have by evolving as a hive. Once again, Flood author Melissa Scholes Young has
readers buzzing with the story of an unforgettable family, grieving, and rising
again.
Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood and the editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity—two anthologies by women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Ms., Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and the Believer. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, the Center for Mark Twain Studies' Quarry Farm Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is an associate professor in Literature at American University.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Paducah, KY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68442-644-8 / 1684426448 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68442-644-7 / 9781684426447 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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