By Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd puts the spotlight to Lily Owens, a 14 year old white girl living with abusive dad in a small town. This story will teach us how family means to us, and how those around us will be the ones we care for the most. Lily Owens loved to listen to the bees buzzing around her rooms at night. Little did she know, those bees were going to lead her to know everything about her mother. Lily grew up believing that she had been the one who killed her mother accidentally, hence her father told her so. She was sick of home, and just wanted to go where ever her mother gone to when she was alive. An incident sent her and her black housekeeper, Rosaleen, to a venture away from town.
This tale is a reminder of destiny and faith, hard work, and also talks about the racism cases in the 1960s. So there is Lily Owens, a white little girl living with a house full of black women, and even works with them. She was even lucky someone wanted to take her and Rosaleen in anyone's house looking at how badly conditioned they were from all the running away from town. Turned out, that house was once Lily's mother's house too, and those black ladies work as bee keepers for life. Lily knew she was driven there for a reason, and Lily eventually had to learn things in life that she never really thought of, and to choose her own life path to go along with.
My Rating: *****
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