On Wednesday, May 29 at 6:00 pm, the Book Club will meet for a discussion about "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. Copies are available in regular print, large print, and audiobook editions in a special display in our fiction section. You can click here to place a hold, or we can place a hold for you -- call us at (920) 398-3434 and ask!
"Set in South Carolina during 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a fourteen year old white girl, Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily’s fierce-hearted “stand-in mother,” Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge in their mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna.
Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother. The Secret Life of Bees is a major literary triumph about the search for love and belonging, a novel that possesses a rare wisdom about life and the power and divinity of the female spirit."