The Bee & The Fly

Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, The Bee & The Fly (2022) by Lorraine Tosiello and Jane Cavolina presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between a reclusive poet and the most renowned author of her time. What could Louisa May Alcott say to Emily Dickinson about abolitionism and woman’s rights? What might Dickinson reveal to Alcott about her thoughts on marriage and eternity? Researched for over five years and drawing heavily on biographical facts, these luminous letters present a friendship that explores the questions of family responsibilities, women’s growing influence in the literary world, the cost of fame and the power of sorority. “Lorraine Tosiello and Jane Cavolina perfectly embody the voices of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson through letters between these two world-famous writers. The exquisite writing and intimate details immersed me into the lives of Alcott and Dickinson, leading me to fantasize that the correspondence actually occurred. Don’t rush through this book – savor every moment.” —Susan Bailey, curator, Louisa May Alcott Is My Passion website Jane Cavolina was a senior editor at William Morrow, Crown, and Pocket Books, and is now a copyeditor. She is the coauthor of Growing Up Catholic , which was on The New York Times bestseller list for forty-weeks, and other works. She has read every Louisa May Alcott book in the Bayside Public Library with the exception of Little Women  and has worn out several copies of Leaves of Grass , by her other favorite poet, and cherishes her well-flagged copy of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson . Lorraine Tosiello read Alcott’s Little Women in the first grade, and again and again most years of her childhood after that. That set her off on her life journey of reading, working as a physician, motherhood, traveling, and general rabble-rousing. Rereading Little Women in later adulthood renewed her Alcott enthusiasm and years of study resulted in her first novel, Only Gossip Prospers: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott in New York. She lives with her husband in midtown Manhattan and at the New Jersey shore.  Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Bookshop