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The secret life of bees

Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2002.
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Set in South Carolina in 1964, [this book] tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Kidd, Sue Monk.
Secret life of bees.
New York : Viking, 2002
(OCoLC)606732203
Online version:
Kidd, Sue Monk.
Secret life of bees.
New York : Viking, 2002
(OCoLC)607890177
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sue Monk Kidd
ISBN: 9780670032372 0670032379 9780670894604 0670894605 9780965331920 096533192X 0142001740 9780142001745
OCLC Number: 46959726
Description: xii, 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Responsibility: Sue Monk Kidd.
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Now in paperback comes the intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discover of . . . the strange and wondrous places we find love" ("The Washington Post"). A bestseller in hardcover,  Read more...

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"A moving first novel...Lily is an authentic and winning character and her story is compellingly told. The bees presage her journey toward self-acceptance, faith and freedom that is at the heart of Read more...

 
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by AnnetteDunlea (WorldCat user published 2009-05-28) Excellent Permalink

Set in the 1960's US in a time of racial tensions Lily narrates her coming of age tale. Lily flees her abusive father and the police with her nanny Rosaleen to find more of her mother's history. She goes to live with the three calendar sisters who have a profound influence on her life. August adopts...
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