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The Secret Life of Bees

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The Secret Life of Bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

January 1, 2002 | Hardcover

The Secret Life of Bees is set in early 1960s South Carolina. Running from dangerous racial unrest, protagonist Lily and her "stand-in mother." Rosaleen flee to Tiburon, South Carolina where they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black, beekeeping sisters. Herein Lily enters a secret world of bees and honey wherein the Black Madonna presides over this household of wise women. Maternal loss and betrayal, guilt and forgiveness are intertwined in a story of Lily's discover of the thing her heart longs for most.
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    Rating: 5/5

    A Story of Sisterhood and the Soul

    Heather Reisman

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    5 years ago

    I just loved The Secret Life of Bees. I was drawn into this book from the very first paragraph -- it's a story of sisterhood and the soul, written for those of us who prefer happy endings with a sense of realism. First-time novelist Sue Monk Kidd is going to be one to watch.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Loved it

    Lava

    4 months ago

    The characters were so well defined. There was a bit of everything in this novel, love, friendship, politics, injustice. Definitely worth the read and as always much better than the movie.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Great book

    Willa

    5 months ago

    This is a highly enjoyable read and I definitely recommend it. You won't be disappointed.

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    Marie-Ann

    Rating: 4/5

    An excellent read!

    Marie-Ann

    9 years ago

    A great book! I totally loved it! A great book about a girl, Lily, who tries to find out more about her mother but finds herself. She finds comfort in the calender sister's home. Their relationships start to slowly bond together. A book that lets us look into the lives of those during the period of dr.martin luther king.

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The Secret Life of Bees has a rare wisdom about life--about mothers and daughters and the women in our lives who become our true mothers. A remarkable story about the divine power of women and the transforming power of love, this is a stunning debut whose rich, assured, irresistible voice gathers us up and doesn't let go, not for a moment. It is the kind of novel that women share with each other and that mothers will hand down to their daughters for years to come.

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The Secret Life of Bees is set in early 1960s South Carolina. Running from dangerous racial unrest, protagonist Lily and her "stand-in mother." Rosaleen flee to Tiburon, South Carolina where they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black, beekeeping sisters. Herein Lily enters a secret world of bees and honey wherein the Black Madonna presides over this household of wise women. Maternal loss and betrayal, guilt and forgiveness are intertwined in a story of Lily's discover of the thing her heart longs for most.

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Lily Owens has shaped her life around one devastating, blurred, memory—the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only real companion on the peach farm of her harsh, unyielding father has been a fierce-hearted black woman, Rosaleen, her "stand-in mother."

When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily knows it is time to spring them both free. She and Rosaleen take off for a town called Tiburon, South Carolina, a name she found on the back of a picture amid the few possessions left by her mother.

They are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters. Lily enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, and of the Black Madonna who presides over this household of strong, wise women—a place where ultimately she can find the single thing her heart longs for most.

About the Author

Sue Monk Kidd was born on August 12, 1948. She is a writer best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees. The book was made into a movie for theatrical release in 2008. Kidd, who was born in Sylvester, Georgia, graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in nursing in 1970 and worked throughout her twenties as a Registered Nurse and college nursing instructor. She got her start in writing when a personal essay she wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts and reprinted in Reader's Digest. She went on to become a Contributing Editor at Guideposts. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, two children, and a black lab.

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January 1, 2002


0670894605
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