Sue Monk Kidd
It's a busy world we live in, and people are always bustling around, leaving one destination and heading for the next. However, whenever I find myself with a slot of free time, I like to fill it with reading. I usually stick to a small group of select books, but one day a couple of weeks ago, I decided to branch out and try a book called The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. This is a book about a fourteen year old girl named Lily who lives with her father, T-Ray, in the deep south. When Lily was four, she accidentily shot her mother. Her father has resented her ever since. This book is set in 1964, where Lily and T-Ray farm peaches with an African American woman named Rosaleen. But when Rosaleen gets in trouble with the police, purely for being black, she and Lily decide to run away. They go to South Carolina, and find a farm run by three black women who manufacture honey. They stay for some time, and Lily learns many important lessons that will stay This is a lyrical novel about loss and hope that I would recommend to anyone wishing for a touching book to read again and again.
Skyler Mae
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