The secret life of bees /

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 was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kidd, Sue Monk
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2002.
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. Maternal deprivation > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Beekeepers > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. South Carolina > Fiction. Domestic fiction.
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