The Secret Life of Bees is a fiction book by the American author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss and betrayal. The book received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards (Paperback), and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. The book was later adapted into a film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
This is an absolute amazing book. A wonderful story written with amazingly descriptive language. It borders on poetry at points. However, be aware that this coming-of-age story deals with childhood trauma including abandonment. It's a must read, but anyone that might be triggered, do so with fair warning. I found myself crying on multiple occasions with this book.
I listened to the audio book over a few weeks on my daily commute.
This is a beautiful book, in fact a perfect book.
Gorgeous prose that compliments rather than detracting from the story. I wasn't sure what the story would be about and the beginning seemed very dark and sad, I wasn't sure I was going to like it (in that it wouldn't make me happy) but soon the book blossomed and became a sweet story of a young girl in a world she can barely comprehend.
I loved this story was wrapped around hives and dripping with honey, filled with the buzzing of bees ; all of which are just a tiny part of the tale of the deep American south, of racism, of change, of life and death and how we are all tiny parts of a whole...just like the bees.
Read this book (or listen to …
I listened to the audio book over a few weeks on my daily commute.
This is a beautiful book, in fact a perfect book.
Gorgeous prose that compliments rather than detracting from the story. I wasn't sure what the story would be about and the beginning seemed very dark and sad, I wasn't sure I was going to like it (in that it wouldn't make me happy) but soon the book blossomed and became a sweet story of a young girl in a world she can barely comprehend.
I loved this story was wrapped around hives and dripping with honey, filled with the buzzing of bees ; all of which are just a tiny part of the tale of the deep American south, of racism, of change, of life and death and how we are all tiny parts of a whole...just like the bees.
Read this book (or listen to it - the narrator on the audio book is excellent)
