The Secret Life Of Bees By Sue Monk Kidd
THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Sue Monk Kidd This heartfelt, captivating novel starts out with a very troubled fourteen year old girl named Lily Owens who lives with her father and their black maid Rosaleen. Her mother is dead due to an accident partially caused by Lily. As the story begins, Rosaleen gets thrown in jail and beaten up by three white men because all she wanted to do was to go into town and vote. Lily then decides it’s the time for them to run away to find the town Tiburon, South Carolina. This was the town written on the back of a picture of black Mary, which belonged to Lily’s mother.
Once they get there, a honey jar label with that same black Mary picture on it leads them to the pepto bismol pink house of August Boatwright