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    Summary of The Secret Life of Bees: by Sue Monk Kidd | Includes Analysis
    Summary of The Secret Life of Bees: by Sue Monk Kidd | Includes Analysis
    Summary of The Secret Life of Bees: by Sue Monk Kidd | Includes Analysis
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    The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursui

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    PublisherInstaread, Inc
    Release dateFeb 22, 2019
    ISBN9781683785231
    Summary of The Secret Life of Bees: by Sue Monk Kidd | Includes Analysis

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      The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursuing a lead on her late mother, whose final days are shrouded in mystery, Lily travels to a nearby town where she finds a new home with a black family.

      In the racially charged milieu that is Sylvan, South Carolina, in 1964, Lily lives with her father near his peach orchard. She has a hard life. Having accidentally killed her own mother in a gun accident when she was four years old, Lily is being raised by her father, T. Ray, who can be physically abusive and emotionally cruel.

      At night, bees have been swarming in Lily’s room. According to her caretaker, a black woman named Rosaleen Daise, they’re harbingers of death. One night, Lily wakes T. Ray to bear witness to the spectacle, but the bees are gone when the two of them return to her room. The next day, she begins capturing bees and keeping them in a jar to offer him as proof.

      T. Ray never really talks about Lily’s mother, Deborah, and Lily’s memory is hazy regarding what happened on the day of her death. Now her prized possessions are things that used to

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