Title: The Secret Life of Bees (a novel)
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Pub. Date: January 2003
Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four—under tragic circumstances clouded by time and secrecy. She later found a fiercely protective "stand-in," her abusive father's outspoken housekeeper, Rosaleen. Ignoring differences in age and color—and the fact that racial hatred seethed during the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina—these two unlikely companions set off on a seemingly aimless pilgrimage that ends at the home of a trio of eccentric bee-keeping black sisters.
Lily tells her remarkable tale of longing and love in an idiom and accent heard far south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the lessons learned during her odyssey into the world of bees and their "secret life" are universal and everlasting.
Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four—under tragic circumstances clouded by time and secrecy. She later found a fiercely protective "stand-in," her abusive father's outspoken housekeeper, Rosaleen. Ignoring differences in age and color—and the fact that racial hatred seethed during the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina—these two unlikely companions set off on a seemingly aimless pilgrimage that ends at the home of a trio of eccentric bee-keeping black sisters.
Lily tells her remarkable tale of longing and love in an idiom and accent heard far south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the lessons learned during her odyssey into the world of bees and their "secret life" are universal and everlasting.
Recommended Reading:
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Chinese Cinderella : True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Chinese Cinderella : True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Received: June 2006
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