01568cam a2200253 4500 947843806 TxAuBib 20230825120000.0 230202s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023003418 9780374600303 HRD 30.00 0374600309 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib Murray, Paul, 1975-, author. The bee sting [BOOK] / Paul Murray. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 645 pages ; 24 cm. "The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under--but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favor to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil--can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written--is there still time to find a happening?"-- 20231002. Families Fiction. Finance, Personal Fiction. Ireland Fiction.