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The Murmur of Bees
by Sofía Segovia
The Murmur of Bees is a different type of book for me, not my usual genre, but once my mind quit fighting against things that couldn’t be real I couldn’t put it down. A sweeping family saga set in Mexico, this is a story of love, brotherhood, and healing from the pain left by the Mexican revolution. Magical realism combined with historical fiction, The Murmur of Bees follows Simonopio, a very special child, and his bees as they act as living guardian angels for the Morales Cortés family.
It’s a sensory story that “smells like the honey of bees and the orange blossoms of the Morales Cortés’s orange trees”.
“Tell them to walk in the shade. To listen with their eyes, to see with their skin, and to feel with their ears, because life speaks to us all and we just need to know and wait to listen to it, see it, feel it.”
~ Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
“But let me tell you what I know, what I’ve concluded: it doesn’t matter whether time passes slowly or quickly. What you can be sure of is that, in the end, all you want is to have more. More of those lazy afternoons when nothing happens, despite your best efforts to the contrary. More of those annoying arms that picked you up to stop you doing something crazy. More tellings-off from the mother who you thought was a nag. More glimpses, even, of your father hurrying somewhere, always busy. More soft embraces from the wife who loved you all your life, and more trusting looks from your children’s young eyes.”
~ Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
Suspend your beliefs and fall into this one with all of your senses wide open, you won’t regret it.
It’s a sensory story that “smells like the honey of bees and the orange blossoms of the Morales Cortés’s orange trees”.
“Tell them to walk in the shade. To listen with their eyes, to see with their skin, and to feel with their ears, because life speaks to us all and we just need to know and wait to listen to it, see it, feel it.”
~ Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
“But let me tell you what I know, what I’ve concluded: it doesn’t matter whether time passes slowly or quickly. What you can be sure of is that, in the end, all you want is to have more. More of those lazy afternoons when nothing happens, despite your best efforts to the contrary. More of those annoying arms that picked you up to stop you doing something crazy. More tellings-off from the mother who you thought was a nag. More glimpses, even, of your father hurrying somewhere, always busy. More soft embraces from the wife who loved you all your life, and more trusting looks from your children’s young eyes.”
~ Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees
Suspend your beliefs and fall into this one with all of your senses wide open, you won’t regret it.