01314cam a2200253 4500 165883048 TxAuBib 20031027120000.0 031027s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780142001745 0142001740 (OCoLC)779619559 TxAuBib Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees / By Sue Monk Kidd. 2003 Penguin Books. United States of America : Penguin Putnam Inc, 2003. 302. Setin South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees 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 black "stand-in-mothther", Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, 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 their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. 20031027. Motherless Daughter - Fiction. Women's Relationships - Fiction. TXBAY