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Book Review of The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
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The story of Lily Owens whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's black "stank-in-mother" Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tibuon, South Carolina- a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to theri mesmerizing world of bees and honey and thier Black Madonna.