| Description |
xii, 302 pages, 15 ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Includes "A Penguin readers guide to The secret life of bees". |
| Summary |
14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest... |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 15.0 68836. |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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African American women -- Fiction.
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Maternal deprivation -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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Beekeepers -- Fiction.
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Sisters -- Fiction.
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South Carolina -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans.
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Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
0142001740 (paperback) |
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9780142001745 (paperback) |
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