In her extraordinarily thoughtful, tender memoir, The Honey Bus, Meredith May tells of the childhood lessons she learned from a seemingly unlikely source: honeybees. While enduring a fragmented family and an unstable mom, Meredith May found inspiration in the gentle guidance of a grandfather and a sense of order and “family” that she observed while he taught her the art of beekeeping. Poignant, intriguing, and sometimes funny, this book and this author are bound to inspire.
Meredith May is an award-winning journalist and fifth-generation beekeeper. She spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the co-author of I, Who Did Not Die about a child soldier who risked his life to rescue a wounded enemy fighter during the Iran/Iraq War.
Find Meredith here:
Book Trailer
San Francisco Chronicle
Carmel Magazine
Creative Nonfiction Podcast
LitHub – an essay about how to save bees
Daily Mail UK – article on toxic motherhood
Social Media:
Twitter & Instagram: @meredithmaysf
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=656968409
You can find her book, The Honey Bus, at your local, independent bookstore or on Amazon.
Betsy,
I wish I had read Meredith’s book before I wrote AMERICAN FAMILY. I struggled with the grandfather’s character because I didn’t know either of my own. I love the Morning Glory project. I need its “Yes, it is sad but it can be survived,” attitude. Thank you, both of you.