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Many's the years ago I wantyed a transformative period early in his life for a Maya insurrectionist (based on a real-life Maya rebel), a time when he had nothing, was maybe somehow out of his mind, and did something dangerous. I had heard about "honey men" in Yucatán, guys who went about getting the honey out of people's hives (all in the day before the suits and the smokers, when a firebrand might be the only instrument to control the bees). Writing that section (the novel is called A GREEN TREE AND A DRY TREE) was super fun. As an artifact, I still have (somewhere) my copy of the bee-keeping guide from the W.W. Dandant company, major suppliers of bee-keeping stuff, should you, Susie, ever want to reconsider...

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Lise Menn's avatar

Great read! With you all the way.

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