The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
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Author: Sue Monk KiddBrand: Penguin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-28
ISBN: 0142001740
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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- ISBN13: 9780142001745
- Condition: New
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Book Review: "Despite everything, I remain tender toward the bees."
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the touching story of one very important summer in a young girl's life. Lily is fourteen, miserable, and motherless. Her mother died when Lily was four; a gun was involved, but it's just a blurred memory. She lives on a peach farm in rural South Carolina with her loathsome father, T. Ray. It is 1964; the Civil Rights Act has just been signed and is affecting white and black people alike. Lily decides to run away and sets out to learn the truth about her late mother. Her journey takes her to the "calendar sisters," May, June, and August Boatwright, whose world embraces and transforms her.
Each chapter of the book begins with a bee factoid which foreshadows what will happen next. The author paints a vivid word picture of life in a dusty, suffocatingly hot Southern town, where segregation has been the norm, but that is about to change. You can almost hear the soothing hum of the bees and smell the honey as Lily and August work in the honey house. You really feel Lily's confusion, torment, and self-loathing. I enjoyed this compelling tale of a girl's search for happiness and the women who help her find it.
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