She and her younger brother virtually raised themselves with the assistance of grandparents who displayed eccentricities of their own. A former San Francisco Chronicle reporter and fifth-generation beekeeper, May, describes her family’s toxic history with surprising candor and vivid, often gorgeous prose.įollowing her parents’ abrupt separation and a swift move from Rhode Island to California, May watched helplessly as her mother receded into neurosis, depression and seclusion. May’s new memoir, “The Honey Bus” (Park Row Books, $25, 336 pages) is an intricate, extraordinary story that draws parallels between the social realms of honeybees and human families. Honeybees, an unconventional grandfather and a 1951 military bus-turned-honey bottling factory were salvation for Carmel Valley writer Meredith May.
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