![]() ![]() The story and his confusion melds into focus slowly as the story unfolds. Spoiler alert, if you haven’t read the book, moving forward we are going to discuss key themes and plot points… A young adult trying to figure out who they are, through the characters that come into the life shared with his single mum and soon with Steve a terribly accurate cliche of Australian masculinity. Honeybee centres on Sam, a young person struggling to understand themselves a world that hasn’t been kind. Honeybee has already gone on to win the Fiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Literary fiction book of the year in 2021 at the Australian Book Industry Awards. I get the sense of that regionalism apparent in Capote, that comes out in Honeybee, with off-the-earth characters and a dark undertow of the harder sides of life. Silvey is an Aussie novelist, influenced apparently by Southern Gothic (think Truman Capote, Mark Twain etc). ![]() But this book came highly recommended by Rosie and was voted by our Tribe, so if the Tribe has spoken…Ī little snippet on Craig Silvey, of Jasper Jones fame (which I haven’t read or seen the movie). So we set out to read books by Australian Women, and with our second book we landed on a male author…another great start. So hence April’s bookclub bleeding into May was bound to happen… One thing we love about Gazella, is if we don’t meet a deadline or something doesn’t work out – hey it’s fine! At the end of the day this is meant to be fun. ![]()
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