Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback); 2008 Edition

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The Secret Life of Bees is Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, following several acclaimed works of nonfiction. The novel follows Lily Owens in the summer of 1964 in South Carolina. On a quest to discover her mother's past, Lily travels to a honey farm in Tiburon, South Carolina. There she discovers the Boatwrights in a fabulous world of beekeeping, spirituality, and obsession with honey. Lily discovers more about herself, her mother, and society than she could have imagined before she began her journey. She learns about the power of females not only as individuals but also as they work collectively. In an interview with La Vie en Rose, Kidd confesses that very little of Lily's existence relates to her own childhood. She insists that her father is the exact opposite of T. Ray, and she adds that while Lily merely wanted to go to charm school, Kidd actually did go. Kidd did, however, grow up in the South in the 1960s, giving her a sense of the paradoxes of the region. While Kidd insists that none of the characters in the novel is based on any specific person in her life, she acknowledges that at times people she knew speak through her characters.

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