First of all, I cant wait to see this movie it has what I would say three no FIVE!! great actresses in there and the book is certainly worth the read.The Secret Life of Bees is a 2002 bestselling novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. It has received much critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. It has won the Orange Prize. The novel has been adapted into a film by Gina Prince-Bythewood that stars
Dakota Fanning,Hilarie Burton, Alicia Keys,Tristoan Wilds, Sophie Okonedo,Jenifer Hudon(Dream Girls) and Queen Latifah(last seen in mad money). The film will be released on October 17, 2008
Set in south carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been
shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina - a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introuced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna.
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