Starting Over: A Country Year and A Book of Bees

A pair of memoirs about a woman starting her life over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks, from "a latter-day Henry Thoreau with a sense of the absurd" (Chicago Tribune).

Taken together, the "steadily eloquent" national bestseller, A Country Year, and its follow-up, A Book of Bees, a New York Times Notable Book, offer a moving and fascinating chronicle of Sue Hubbell's seasonal second life as a commercial beekeeper (The Washington Post).

Alone on a small Missouri farm after the end of a thir...