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Book Description:
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia 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. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic.
中文简介：
20世纪60年代的美国南方，美国黑人民权运动风起云涌。一个十四岁的白人女孩，在与父母的争执中不小心拣起地上的枪，突然枪走火，把自己的妈妈打死了。她的父亲粗暴简单，小女孩心灵背负重压。几年后，她踏上了流浪之路。一个由三个黑人同胞姐妹组成的黑人家庭收容了她。在这个家庭中，小女孩心中的阴暗情结得到了救赎，得到了疗伤，生命重新被点亮，找到了自我，学会了宽容，学会了坚强，学会了爱。故事让人感动，久久回味。用丑陋和艰难，照亮生命中的美。南卡罗来纳州，一个怀揣着无尽秘密与烦恼的女孩躺在床上，思母心切。神秘和蜂群从她闺房的墙缝中涌出，满屋子轻盈翻飞。一张黑圣母的画像，一个瞬间闪现的声音：“你的蜜蜂瓶盖子打开了”，让她依稀看到前方的路。在一个蜜与蜂的避难所思里，她被救赎、疗伤，与迷失的自己再次相遇。(Penguin Group)
About Author:
Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees.
苏·蒙克·基德（Sue Monk kidd），1948生于美国，集经典与畅销于一身的美国著名女作家，《蜜蜂的秘密生活》是她的成名作。
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