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I loved this book! The Secret Life of Bees is set in South Carolina during the struggle for Equal Rights, and tells the story of Lily Owens whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. Her mean father T. Ray tells Lily that she killed her mother. Her fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother" Rosaleen insults 3 of the deepest racists in town when she goes in to register taking Lily with her. Lily sees Rosaleen beaten and thrown in jail and hides until she can spring Rosaleen and they can run away to Tiburon, South Carolina - the town that holds the secret to her mother's past. A wonderful book.
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