The Short Version: When Marnie and Nelly’s good-for-nothing parents die (murder-suicide), the girls decide to bury them in the backyard and make a go of it by themselves.  With the help of a kindly neighbor, they end up relatively happy and life goes on – but when their grandfather shows up, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out. The Review: Everyone gives quite a lot of credit to the opening of this novel.  It begins, from […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Fiction, Indiespensable, Lisa O'Donnell, Literature, The Death of Bees