Can I read The Secret Life of Bees on EtoBox?

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Secret Life of Bees about?

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a multi-million copy New York Times bestseller, now an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys Fans of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Beth Hoffman’s Saving CeeCee Honeycutt will love Sue Monk Kidd’s Southern coming of age tale. The Secret Life of Bees was a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, a Good Morning America “Read This” Book Club pick and was made into an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys. 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 town's most vicious racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides

Who reads The Secret Life of Bees?

Author

Sue Monk Kidd; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101010969

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (683 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14