The Secret Life of Bees (novel)

The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees cover
AuthorSue Monk Kidd
IllustratorKim Ellington
GenreHistorical Fiction
PublishedNovember 8, 2001
Publication placeUnited States
Pages336 pp.

The Secret Life of Bees is a novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial landscape of the civil-rights era of the American South. 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.

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