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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, this book tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was kiloled. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand'in mother", Rosaleen, insluts three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina - a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, etc."