Jeff VanderMeer reviews Amal El-Mohtar’s truly lovely The Honey Month.
Amal El-Mohtar’s The Honey Month from Papaveria Press ranks among 2010’s most exquisite and overlooked treasures. This beautifully illustrated volume of short fictions and poems by El-Mohtar takes as its inspiration the author’s tasting of 28 different kinds of honey, one per day. Each tasting leads to a different literary creation, but she begins each entry by describing the honey in terms that will be familiar to wine connoiseurs.
