I love books about sisters, and I love The Hive, which has all the eccentricity and yearning of some of my favorite sister stories, like We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and Sisters By a River by Barbara Comyns. From the very first chapter, The Hive is a deft, delightfully weird, and often comical family saga. --Timothy Schaffert, author of The Perfume Thief The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young is real and raw, and will pin you back in your seat. It's a powerful portrait of a family coming to terms with a changing world that some are ready for, and others are not. The Fahler family is beautifully rendered in their messy complexity--flawed, tragic, and hopeful, all at once. I loved it. --Alex George, author of The Paris HoursYou'll buzz through The Hive, Melissa Scholes Young's vibrant second novel about a close family and their closely held secrets. In a small conservative town, where Mark Twain scholars abide with Rush Limbaugh followers, four daughters and their mother try to save the family's exterminating business. Each yearns to be true to herself and the hive, as loyalty wrestles with self-discovery. A loving portrait of a family that closes ranks even as it opens its heart.--Mary Kay Zuravleff, author of Man Alive! "I love when an author takes me some place I've never been. Much like an epic Jane Smiley novel, Melissa Scholes Young transports us to rural America, inside a family owned pest control business and four sisters' struggle to keep it afloat in a changing political landscape. The Hive is a moving and completely immersive reading experience." --Marcy Dermansky, author of Very Nice In The Hive, the kind of authentic and deeply felt novel that could only be crafted from personal experience, the Fehler sisters grapple with grief, regret, and their mother's secrets as they reel from the sudden death of their father...Melissa Scholes Young gracefully and compassionately captures the moving story of four young women seeking out their own independence while drawn, inexorably, back, and back again, into the family business."-- Dean Bakopoulos, author of Summerlong A story of survival, sisters, and secrets The Fehler sisters wanted to be more than bug girls but growing up in a fourth- generation family pest control business in rural Missouri, their path was fixed. The family talked about Fehler Family Exterminating at every meal, even when their mom said to separate the business from the family, an impossible task. They tried to