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Loading... THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES.by Sue Monk. Kidd
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book was about 3 black sister (Boatwright sisters) that took in a white little girl name Lily Owens and her black nanny Rosaline. Lily lied about why was she there and what really was going onn in her life. The Boatwright sister took her in with open arms they also knew the truth about Lily and her mom, but they didn't say anything into she decidied to come around and tell them why was she there and why she ran away and also why rosaline had that big scare on her head and also so why she hated T-Ray so much.. and the way her mom passed away. (  ) df1a_jasminC | Jan 6, 2010 |  Lily has to live with knowing that she was responsible for her mother's death. Complete accident, because she was a toddler, but still. Now she is stuck living with T. Ray, her dad. He has strict rules and harsh punishments. Rosaleen stepped in as Lily's mother figure. She was a worker on their peach farm who was now responsible for the house and Lily. Lily and Rosaleen run away to Tiburon, South Carolina. It was the place written on one of the few things Lily has left of her mother. The rest of the story is about fitting in, caring for strangers, learning to love, and many other themes that will just touch your heart. The Secret Life of Bees is a touching story. I tremendously enjoyed reading it, and would definitly read it again. (  ) ahsreads | Jan 6, 2010 | Lily is 14, motherless, and about to set out on a deeply emotional voyage of self discovery. Accompanied by her black nanny and fleeing from an emotionally abusive father, as well as the law, she discovers herself, her mother and her future with an eccentic group of black women beekeepers. ( ) pennykaplan | Jan 2, 2010 | A well-written novel of a girl's coming-of-age in the south during the critical first year after the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Most of the story is more personal than political, but the relationships between black and white groups, especially where voting rights were at stake, complicates the troubled family story. and, you learn a lot about bees! (  ) ffortsa | Dec 24, 2009 | A wonderful book about a girl who runs away from home and the family who takes her in. Great characters to love. ( ) tanya2009 | Dec 24, 2009 | 
 Lily is a wonderfully petulant and self-absorbed adolescent, and Kidd deftly portrays her sense of injustice as it expands to accommodate broader social evils. At the same time, the political aspects of Lily's growth never threaten to overwhelm the personal.
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0142001740, Paperback)In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 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. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. 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. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:58:13 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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