Claire Farmer & Merrie Weiss

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The story of a young girl living in rural South Carolina during the 1960s. Her earliest memory is of seeing her mother killed, and when, at the age of 14, Lily rescues her surrogate mother and runs away, it is to a place named on the back of a picture belonging to her mother. The story deals with personal psychoses, racial tensions and beautiful black women with big hats. It is a mystical story of love, redemption and motherhood.