![]() ![]() ![]() They have a no-nonsense maid, Rosaleen, who is a mother figure for Lily. Lily lives in a house with her abusive father, whom she refers to as T. Set in 1964 in the fictitious town of Sylvan, South Carolina, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a 14-year-old white girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. The book was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards (Paperback), and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. The book received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial landscape of the civil rights era of the American South. The Secret Life of Bees is a fiction book by the American author Sue Monk Kidd. ![]()
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