Book 6: The Secret Life of Bees
Book 6: The Secret Life of Bees Author : Sue Monk Kidd Year of Publication : 2001 Why I chose this book: (2003) No Idea. :-) I do not really remember why I wanted to read this. I guess the title was alluring. My husband had a fascination for apiculture a while back and I thought it had something to do with bees. I thought it might be interesting and started reading it. Plus I did not want to review the Da Vinci Code. It's funny how I always chose books which have taken some form on the big screen. My Take: This is a story set in 1964. In America. Of a white girl who ends up living with a family of intriguing, hardworking black women. The protagonist Lily (symbolically white name?) runs off with her housemaid, a proud black woman. We are talking of The America which is slowly becoming politically aware of its rights, Martin Luther King is being heard and the thick black line of separation is blurring ever so slightly. It is almost unimaginable in that time that a white girl woul