Book: The Secret Life of Bees

Author: Sue Monk Kidd

Review:  I read this one in only a day.  Lily is a sad teenage girl.  She accidently shot her mother when she was four.  Her stand in mother is Rosalee, a former black peach picker on her father's farm.  Her father is awful to her.  It is 1964 and Johnson has just signed the Civil Rights law.  When Rosalee gets herself arrested, Lily breaks her out and they make a run for Tiburon SC.  A name that she got from one of her mother's possessions.  She arrives at August Boatwrights house.  She is a beekeeper, who has a house full of love.  Lily learns that her mother had once been there, and had left her to go there.  The story has heartbreak, but Lily also finds a place where she is loved.  The story is very real, that parents aren't perfect, and even her father is not really a monster.