Starting Over

A pair of memoirs about a woman starting her life over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks, from “a latter-day Henry Thoreau with a sense of the absurd” ( Chicago Tribune ).   Taken together, the “steadily eloquent” national bestseller, A Country Year , and its follow-up, A Book of Bees, a New York Times Notable Book, offer a moving and fascinating chronicle of Sue Hubbell’s seasonal second life as a commercial beekeeper ( The Washington Post ).   Alone on a small Missouri farm after the end