The Honey Thief

Elizabeth Graver''s first novel Unravelling was hailed on publication as exceptional (The New York Times Book Review) a pleasure (The New Yorker) and exquisitely poignant and sensual (The Boston Globe). Now in her second novel she proves herself to be a major voice in American fiction. The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is caught shoplifting (for the fourth time) her mother Miriam decides the only solution is to move out of the city to a quiet town in upstate New York. There she hopes they can have the normal life she longs for. But Miriam is bound by a past she is trying to forget and tensions escalate. It is only when Eva meets a reclusive beekeeper that she-and her mother-can find their way back to each other and can begin life with renewed promise. A haunting novel of memory and desire The Honey Thief reveals the healing power of friendship and the ineradicable bonds of mother and child.