A review by littletaiko
The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell

4.0

"Today is Christmas Eve. Today is my birthday. Today I am fifteen. Today I buried my parents in the backyard. Neither of them were beloved." I was hooked from these opening sentences. Two sisters who are part of a very dysfunctional family cope the best they can after burying their parents. They hide the fact that their parents are dead by telling people they have left on a trip. Since the parents were in the habit of abandoning them fairly regularly, their story rings true. They find assistance in their neighbor Lennie who has his own problems. The story is told from all three perspectives and the author does a nice job giving them their own distinct voices. It's a quick, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking story.

In full disclosure I did receive this as a free copy from Goodreads.