Harare Review of Books

112 pages. First published September 3, 2024 by Street Noise Books. Non-fiction.

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Milk Without Honey is a charming, mostly illustrative book with poetic and spare lines—so, a genre mashup between a graphic novel and a book of poetry, perhaps, but non-fiction. The palette is black, yellow and white because this is a meditation on bees, and their extinction: what the world would look like without [pollinators].

I have not often read books like this one, and suspect neither will you have. It’s thoughtful and full of grief (at least, that’s how I felt while reading it) for what we’ve already lost, done, how far beyond the point of no return we already are; because we’re not at all prepared for the work that would need to be done to save bees, with our monocultures (including our carefully tended lawns) and our pesticides, and other destructive agricultural methods.

Profoundly moving, and well worth your time. Thank you to Street Noise Books and to Edelweiss for early access.

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