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Book Review of The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees
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Set in South Carolina in 1964. Isolated on a SC peach farm with a neglectful and abusive father, 14 year old Lilly Ownes has spent much of her life longing for her mother, Deborah, who died amid mysteriuos circumstances when Lily was 4. This is a story of love, conviction and forgiveness. I thought it was a good book, a must read for anyone unfamiliar with the Civil Rights era.