{"product_id":"the-hive-9781684426447","title":"The Hive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of survival, sisters, and secrets. The Fehler family's four daughters and their newly widowed, doomsday prepper mother struggle to keep their pest control business from bankruptcy during a recession. Set in a racially and politically divided rural Midwestern town during the Obama years, \u003ci\u003eThe Hive\u003c\/i\u003e shows feminism rising from rural roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoung, Melissa Scholes:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Melissa Scholes Young was born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. She is the author of the novels Flood and The Hive. She's a Contributing Editor for Fiction Writers Review and Editor of two volumes of D.C. Women Writers: Grace in Darkness (2018) and Furious Gravity (2020). Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Washington Post, Ploughshares, Narrative, Poet Lore, and Poets \u0026amp; Writers Magazine. Scholes Young was named a Bread Loaf Camargo Fellow and a Quarry Farm Fellow at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C.","brand":"Keylight Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50496324600082,"sku":"9781684426447","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34d25732-e30d-447a-b3db-96040aa27ad3.jpg?v=1730692765","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hive-9781684426447","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}