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Book Review of The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
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I enjoyed this story of a young girl, Lily, trying to overcome the difficulties in her life in the pre-Civil Rights South. She has to live with the knowledge that she shot her mother and how to deal with a very angry father who takes his anger out on her.

When she breaks her black nanny out of a police guarded hospital room and runs away with her to find out about her mother, her life begins to change for the better and she learns that even though the truth about her mother isn't the fairy tale she has in her head, the real truth helps her to move forward into the truth of her life and who she can be.