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Join us for the next House Finch Book Club! 🗓️ Friday, July 11th OR July 18th, 7pm 📖 Selected book: The Bees by Laline Paull 👋🏽RSVP at the link in our bio or www.HouseFinchNatureStore.com/events 🐝 There is no cost to attend, but RSVPs help us with planning (thank you!) Book synopsis: As we approach the heat of summer and observe the height of honeybee and native bee season, let’s enjoy a novel that dramatizes the incredibly complex lives of honeybees. Described as The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games, this brilliantly imagined story is set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed, and deformity means death. Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues, and worship of the beloved Queen is the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are an asset. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect pollen. She also finds her way into the Queen’s inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous. But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all—daring to challenge the Queen’s fertility—enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by an even more profound desire - a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, her society, and lead her to unthinkable deeds. If you’re interested in reading along with us, we have copies of the book available at House Finch, or you can purchase it through our store on bookshop.org. Library, used, and audiobooks are all welcome, too! RSVP at the link in our bio or www.HouseFinchNatureStore.com/events Happy birding and reading 🐝 Image description: the cover of the book, The Bees, with a dark blue background and an image of a honeycomb with one bee. End image description.