The Secret Life of Bees

The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl‘s journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When ‘s fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, 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 sister, is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.