“The Handmaid's Tale” meets “The Hunger Games” in this brilliantly imagined debut.
Born into the lowest class of society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical. And while mutant bees are usually destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, and then becomes a forager, before finally finding her way into the Queen's inner sanctum. Enemies roam everywhere, from the fearsome fertility police to the high priestesses. But Flora's instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire...
