Title:
The secret life of bees
Author:
Sue Monk Kidd
Genre:
Fiction
Age Group:
Adult
Contents:
Bag with 10 copies of book + discussion questions and author information.
Location:
May Memorial Library
14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest.
