The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd
reviewed by Skye Henry
The Secret Life of Bees is a novel written by Sue Monk Kidd. The novel is about the life of a fourteen-year-old girl named Lily and her confliction of all her questions and her desperate earn for answers about the death of her mother. Lily is an only child without a mother and an abusive father that convinces her to believe that she killed her mother and that she was going to leave her. Frustrated with the real story of what happened with her mother died she runs away with her housekeeper, Rosaleen, after she breaks the law to save from racist men. They hitchhike to a town called Tiburon, S.C. because Lily found her mother’s name on the back of a black Mary that leads her to believe that is where she will find the real story.
As she gets there she finds the people she is looking for but lies about her real story afraid of being rejected. Rosaleen and Lily stay there working with a woman August the owner and her sisters at her honey farm. Lily meets a boy named Zach she grows affectionate for and worries that when she tells the truth she will loose. Scared of telling her real story she tries to keep it a secret but it gets out to one of August’s unstable sisters, May, after she tragically commits suicide.
Now more than ever Lily’s guilt raises and can not decide weather or not to tell August the truth and actually ask her about her mother and if she really was planning to leave her afraid of both the truth and what the next step will be.
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