Moeen’s Reviews > My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You > Status Update

" His apilife, the harmonious, logical domain of bees where he has full agency, is an alternative to his actual life, the chaos of history, where his agency is normally reduced to survivalist improvisation... I can identify with my father’s striving to find and protect a domain in which he can practice agency with dignity and some form of sovereignty. What beekeeping is to him, literature is to me."