What I Read

I recently re-read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This is one of my favorite books with a good story and a good theme. The book mostly revolves around the civil rights movement of the 1960's and their effect on one white girl and the black community in a small town of Tiburon, South Carolina. The girl (Lily) runs away from her abusive father and springs her almost mother Rosaleen from jail and they spontaneously run off to the unknown Tiburon SC. They end up staying with August, May, and June; the makers of 'Lady Madonna Honey', something Lily associates with her long deceased mother. The city police and a couple others are shocked that Lily would stay with the 'summer' sisters, because they feel she is lowering herself to be wit blacks. Lily also falls for a boy who is black and the rest of the community disagrees with that to. The main idea in The Secret Life of Bees is to show everyone that skin color, and even sometimes blood relations don't matter what really matters is who you are deep down inside your heart that truly defines who you are.