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A review by lawl3sswr3n
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia
5.0
This was once of the most impactful books I have read this year, thus far. The book starts out telling the story of a close-knit agricultural-farming family. The story takes place during the Spanish Influenza and the Mexican Revolution of the early 1900s. The Morales family is stunned when Nana Reja (the matriarch of the family) returns after declared missing from her front porch rocking chair. She returns with an extraordinary infant wrapped in cloth, finding this child abandoned under the bridge. The child was born with a cleft lip, and in the gap emerges bees. The family decides to adopt the child – everywhere the child goes his swarm of bees follows. The family raises this boy as their own, naming him Simonopio. This beautifully written novel tells the story of how important the small things are, reminds us to be grateful for what we have, and teaches readers that there is always a reasoning behind everything.
This story was beautiful. The way it was written, the language, the historical aspects, the characters, the plot, the setting… Everything… Beautiful. Very rarely do I give novels a 5/5. But this one earned every single point. This novel wrote about the influenza, and the effects of the illness hit very close to home while the world is in the midst of a pandemic. I didn’t know I needed to read this novel, but after having finished it, I very much realize how much I needed a work of art like this in my life. I’ll be hanging on to the lessons, the beauty, and the simplicity of this novel for a long time.
This story was beautiful. The way it was written, the language, the historical aspects, the characters, the plot, the setting… Everything… Beautiful. Very rarely do I give novels a 5/5. But this one earned every single point. This novel wrote about the influenza, and the effects of the illness hit very close to home while the world is in the midst of a pandemic. I didn’t know I needed to read this novel, but after having finished it, I very much realize how much I needed a work of art like this in my life. I’ll be hanging on to the lessons, the beauty, and the simplicity of this novel for a long time.