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by Sue Monk Kidd (Author) "At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around..." (more)
Key Phrases: honey house, peach stand, peach farm, Our Lady, South Carolina, Daughters of Mary (more...)
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In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia 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. All Lily