The Secret life of bees / by Sue Monk Kidd.
by Kidd, Sue Monk.
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BookPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, c2008Description: xii, 302, 15 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0670894605 (hardcover); 9781415502303 (FollettBound).Subject(s): Teenage girls -- Fiction | African American women -- Fiction | Maternal deprivation -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Beekeepers -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | South Carolina -- FictionSummary: 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.
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"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of the Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2002. Published in Penguin Books 2003"--T.p verso.
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.
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