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Pip and the Heart That Forgot How to Bloom
Paperback
Publisher: Jeffrey Rittenhouse
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five years ago, Julie Beisel sealed her beehives with her own hands.
Her husband had died that morning. The wax cooled. The garden surrendered to bindweed. The luminous jars of wonder honey that once brought neighbors to her door after dark fell dark on the shelf. Now she sells plain chamomile from her porch in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont, and keeps her back to the brambles.
Then, in the soil beneath her last living rosebush, something begins to glow.
Pip is a wonder keeper, older than libraries, older than grief, with one gentle question for the woman who thinks the emptiness she guards has no room left in it. At her gate stands Michael Paine, her quiet neighbor, who has been tending the edges of her life for longer than she has let herself notice. And the town council has given her two weeks to prove the garden can live or the land will be taken.
Some silences are waiting to be broken. Some are waiting to be heard.
A cozy novel of honey, grief, and what grows in the soil we thought was only loss.
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