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Book Review of The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
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This story is about a young girl in South Carolina in 1964. Her mother was killed and she is more or less raised by her black 'stand-in mother'. When the girl and her caretaker are forced to flee town they are taken in by a trio of black beekeeping sisters who reside in the town that holds the secret to her mother's past.