The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin is a novel set in rural Oregon that brings three unlikely characters into a surprising and life changing friendship. Alice, a beekeeper stuck in a dead end job, encounters Jake, a teen in a wheelchair sporting a mohawk. After inviting him to her home, she finds that he has a rare gift with the bees. Enter Harry, a twenty something needing a job, but with so much social anxiety he has never been able to keep one.

What follows is somewhat predictable, and a little too good to be true. That being said, it was a beautiful story of friendship and redemption found in the most unexpected places. Garvin is a beekeeper and the booked is packed with information about beekeeping woven into the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.