title: The Death of a Beekeeper: Novel
author:  Lars Gustafsson 
description: Readers in the US have mostly known Dunya Mikhail by her three extraordinary poetry collections published since the early 2000s - poems of war, displacement, exile. In her astounding new book,The Beekeeper, she turns to the prose of journalist and witness, giving voice to women who have undergone every possible degradation and criminal abuse, and survived, though there are also stories here of women who did not. This utterly harrowing book is often hard to read - until one realizes that this 'discomfort' is nothing to what the women here have endured. It's also a story of those who have put their lives on the line to help rescue them, and help find their way back to a place of healing, reclaiming and affirming life,dignity, humanity. That very humanity - the real people, person by person, behind the numbers we read reports of, those captured, those killed - is part of what makes this a vital, necessary book.<br /> - <strong>Rick Simonson</strong>
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  THE KEEPER OF BEES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HAZARD AND SOMERSET: A UNION OF SWORDS
  
  
  BOOK 5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  GREGORY ASHE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2020 Gregory Ashe
  
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  JUNE 30
  
  
  SUNDAY
  
  
  6:12 PM
  
  
  
  
  
  EMERY HAZARD WAS LOSING AN ARGUMENT.
  
  
  “I did not say dancing was stupid.”
  
  
  They were gathered in their neighbors’ kitchen. Nominally, it was a party.
  
  
  “No,” his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, responded. “I believe your exact words
  were ‘It’s pedestrian.’”
  
  
  “And,” their friend Noah put in, “he said it’s just a way of distracting
  people from serious concerns like the International Monetary Fund’s leadership
  blunders from 2010 to 2017.”
  
  
  Hazard was seriously reconsidering the _friend_ part. “You’re not he