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Kidd, Sue Monk.
Subjects
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Maternal deprivation -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Beekeepers -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
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Kidd, Sue Monk.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Maternal deprivation -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Beekeepers -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
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The
secret
life
of
bees
/ Sue Monk Kidd.
by
Kidd, Sue Monk.
Viking, 2002.
Call #:
FICTION KID
Subjects
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Maternal deprivation -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Beekeepers -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780142001745 (2003 Penguin trade pbk.)
9780670032372 (hc.)
0142001740
9780670894604 (acid-free paper)
0670894605 (acid-free paper)
Description:
xii, 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Set in South Carolina in 1964, The
Secret
Life
of
Bees
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 eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of
bees
, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household." -- Back cover.
Genre:
Black fiction.
Bildungsromans.
First novel.
Holds:
6
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION KID
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Jul 11, 2024
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