Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love?? from the award-winning author of <i>The Invention of Wings<br></i></b><br>Set in South Carolina in 1964?? <i>The Secret Life of Bees</i> 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 "nd-in mother??"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 sister?? Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey?? and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power?? a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>In Sue Monk Kidd's <I>The Secret Life of Bees</I>?? 14-year-old Lily Owen?? neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm?? spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother?? Deborah?? whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child?? in unclear circumstances?? Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonn