LIFETIME LEARNING REVEALS 2025 WASHINGTON CO. READ BOOK

  

Lifetime Learning Brenham has announced its selection for the 2025 Washington County READ: “The Music of Bees” by Eileen Garvin. 

Garvin’s debut novel tells the story of three lost strangers who are thrown off course by unexpected obstacles, but steady themselves through each other and the joy and challenge of beekeeping.

Alice, a widowed, middle-aged woman, takes in two misfits as helpers for the bee-keeping hobby she hopes to turn into her life’s work.  Harry, a young man in his 20s and paroled from jail, is lost in shame and hopelessness as he wrestles to find his path in life.  Jake, a recently paralyzed eighteen year-old, struggles to adapt to his new body and the loss of his dream as a musician, but unlike those around him, Jake’s music-trained ear can hear the music of the bees.

The novel is a national bestseller and has received several accolades, including being named a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a People Magazine Best New Book, and a Washington Post Best Summer Reads.  Bestselling author Laurie Frankel praises Garvin’s novel, saying it “immerses the reader in the seasons, the weather, the trees and the flowers, the river and the land, and the rhythms of small-town life; but it’s the bees, with all their wonder and intricacy and intrigue, that make this story sing.”

Lifetime Learning will host a free community reception on October 7^th at 5:30 p.m. at Unity Theatre.  Garvin will speak to those in attendance, and there will be a dramatic reading of the book.  The event is free to attend, with no registration required.

To learn more, go to www.lifetimelearningbrenham.org.