This novel was about a girl Caroline who had a grandfather she has never met that was diagnosed with dementia who he needed to be taken care of over the summer. The family went up for the summer and stayed with him in his house in the middle of the desert. Caroline was forced to talk and hangout with her grandfather, but he never had anything to say besides this one story about the bees. He would forget that he told the story so he told his granddaughter the story every day, but the story was about how there hasn’t been rain in this desert for decades, and how the sign of rain is if you see bees. Over the summer Caroline explores the ranch they are on and has multiple encounters with what sounds like bees, but one time she finally saw them. Her grandfather was in disbelief and said she was lying. Not too long after this encounter a storm hit, which brought back Carolines grandfather's old ranch that he has been wanting since the drought hit. This book was not the best in my opinion because it was very anticlimactic and was not entertaining, it also felt very repetitive and like this one idea carried out way longer than it should have which made it boring. If you want to read this book you need to be someone that likes the slow and unvaried books.
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