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Book Review of The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
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I loved this book and read it in a day when I was sick in bed. I'm a native Californian who lived in the South for eight years, and I've long loved classic and modern Southern women writers. The interracial theme in this book was extradordinarily well-handled, and the characters as well as the interrelationships between them were lovely. Extremely well-written, thoughtful, heartwarming (but not icky sweet).