"Fascinating. engrossing. Paull's clear fascination with her source material brings humanity and warmth to a depiction of the remarkable social world of bees, which is no small achievement." -- --Huffington Post "The Bees is an extraordinary feat of imagination, conjuring the life of a beehive in gripping, passionate and brilliant detail. With every page I turned, I found myself drawn deeper into Flora's plight and her immersive, mesmerizing world." -- --Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The Song of Achilles --Madeline Miller, bestselling author of The Song of Achilles "This is a rich, strange book.convincing in its portrayal of the mind-set of a bee and a hive. I finished it feeling I knew.
how bees think and live. This is what sets us humans apart--our imagination can.create a complete, believable world so different from our own." -- --Tracy Chevalier, New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring "Told with rapturously attentive imagination.Few novels create such a singular reading experience." -- --The New York Times Book Review "Riveting. evocative and beautiful." -- --NPR "Richly imagined" -- --Los Angeles Times "[A] gripping Cinderella/Arthurian tale with lush Keatsian adjectives.
" -- --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "THE BEES is one wild ride. A sensual, visceral mini-epic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster. Paull's heart pounding novel wrenches us into a new world." -- --Emma Donoghue, The New York Times bestselling author of Room "It quickly became clear that in its basic facts, the novel sticks closely to real-world apian biology and behavior. That is fascinating enough, but Paull deftly wields this information to create an even more elaborately layered culture of beeness.Beautiful." -- Washington Post "Brilliantly imagined.Paull's use of human language to describe this tiny, intricate world is classic storytelling at its finest.
The Bees boasts a refreshingly feminist spin on fairy tale-style plots.A wildly creative book that resonates deeply for quite a long time. -- Austin Chronicle "It's rare to come across a book as mind-blowingly imaginative as Laline Paull's The Bees . It's even more rare for such works to be successful, well-written, gripping stories. The Bees is an utterly memorable wonder of a novel." -- Kirkus Reviews "A marvelous work of fiction. The parallels to "1984" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" are numerous but this story is also its own." -- Florida Times-Union.