Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Prologue-Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

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Prologue-Part 1Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1: “A Swarm of Bees in the Carcass of a Lion”

Prologue Summary

Content Warning: The source material discusses sexual assault and violence against women, and it contains historically inaccurate depictions of Indigenous Americans.

Claire contemplates how bad things happen unexpectedly, no matter how careful one is.

Part 1, Chapter 1 Summary: “The Mackenzies Are Here”

In Fraser’s Ridge, Colony of North Carolina, on June 17, 1779, Brianna and Roger MacKenzie have just returned to Jamie and Claire Fraser. Roger tells Claire about William “Buck” Buccleigh MacKenzie, his four-times-removed great-grandfather who traveled with Roger to the past in an attempt to find Roger’s son, Jem, who was kidnapped by treasure seekers.

Part 1, Chapter 2 Summary: “A Blue Wine Day”

Brianna and Jamie run into Ian, Jamie’s nephew, while hunting. Brianna shares how Rob Cameron, a coworker, aggressively confronted her in the library of Lallybroch in 1980. She escaped and took the children through the stones to find Roger. Jamie hypothesizes that Rob will read the letters written by himself and Claire and can thus learn to travel through the stones to hunt for the treasure he believes is at Fraser’s Ridge.