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The Secret Life of Bees Book Review: The Women Who Save Us When We Can't Save Ourselves
The Secret Life of Bees Book Review: Lily Owens is fourteen years old, growing up in Sylvan, South Carolina, in 1964. Her mother is dead — Lily has a fractured memory of the day it happened, a memory that includes a gun and an accident she may have caused. Her father, T. Ray, is cruel in the ordinary, grinding way that some fathers are. Her only ally is Rosaleen, her Black caregiver, who gets arrested and beaten after trying to register to vote. Lily breaks Rosaleen out, and
Luke Stoffel
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