Nov 22, 2008
“Bees in Transit: Osage County” reflects Hogan's interest in the so-called Osage murders, which were researched by the Osage scholar Carol Hunter. Hogan based her first novel, Mean Spirit (1990), on this work. The novel is set in Oklahoma during the 1920's, soon after the discovery of oil on the allotment lands of the Osage people, and provides a fictionalized account of the lives of Osage landowners who were murdered, most probably for their oil rights. By the novel's end, the Osage people were abandoning their former town life and the white world, leaving behind the...
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