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In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina 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 onesel
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Release date: 28 January 2003
ISBN-10 : 0142001740 | ISBN-13: 9780142001745
Release date: 28 January 2003
ISBN-10 : 0142001740 | ISBN-13: 9780142001745
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