The secret life of bees

Resource Information

The work The secret life of bees represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The secret life of bees

Statement of responsibility

Sue Monk Kidd

Creator

• Kidd, Sue Monk

Subject

• African American women -- Fiction
• South Carolina -- Fiction
• Teenage girls -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Beekeepers -- Fiction
• Maternal deprivation -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Sisters -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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 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. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love--a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.-Back cover

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Interest level

UG

LC call number

PS3611.I44

LC item number

S38 2002

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

5.7

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR