'Find out who you are and live that life.' Late in the night fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge an old man Vic smokes his last cigarette. The two see each other across the void. A fateful connection is made and an unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly we learn what led Sam and Vic to the bridge that night. Bonded by their suffering each privately commits to the impossible task of saving the other. Honeybee is a heartbreaking life-affirming novel that throws us headlong into a world of petty thefts extortion plots botched bank robberies daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show. At the heart of Honeybee is Sam: a solitary resilient young person battling to navigate the world as their true self; ensnared by loyalty to a troubled mother scarred by the volatility of a domineering stepfather and confounded by the kindness of new alliances. Honeybee is a tender profoundly moving novel brimming with vivid characters and luminous words. It's about two lives forever changed by a chance encounter -- one offering hope the other redemption. It's about when to persevere and when to be merciful as Sam learns when to let go and when to hold on.
