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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Sue Monk Kidd
Genre : Fiction
Isolated on a South Carolina peach farm with a neglectful and abusive father, Lily Owens, age fourteen, has spend the last ten years of her life longing for her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was four.
Set in The American South in 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act, and intensifying racial unrest, Sue Monk Kidd’s beautifully written The Secret Life of Bees is a complex coming-of-age story, how the ability to love can transform our lives, and the sometimes unacknowledged longing for the universal feminine divine. Writing about the wounds of loss, betrayal, and the scarcity of love, and eventual forgiveness, Kidd shows the power of women coming together to heal those wounds, to mother each other and themselves, and to create a safe place of true family and home.
“Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about. The next binders were the group that drew the comb. I told her the wy they created hexagons, they must be the ones who could do math in their heads, and she smiled and said, yes, nest builders had true math aptitude. Field bees were the ones with good navigation skills and tireless hearts, going out to gather nectar and pollen. Nurse bees had a gift for nurturing and feeding all the baby bees.”
“[I didn’t tell you] because you weren’t ready to know about her. I didn’t want to risk you running away again. I wanted you to have a chance to get yourself on solid ground, get your heart bolstered up first. There’s a fullness of time for things, Lily. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That’s what I’ve been trying to do.”
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