Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees" (1)

After finishing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, we are now reading Sue Monk Kidd's bestselling novel The Secret Life of Bees, which we will discuss in two sessions, the first one being on Monday 24 January 2011.

Set in the American South in 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act and intensifying racial unrest, Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees is a powerful story of coming-of-age, of the ability of love to transform our lives, and the often unacknowledged longing for the universal feminine divine. Addressing the wounds of loss, betrayal, and the scarcity of love, Kidd demonstrates the power of women coming together to heal those wounds, to mother each other and themselves, and to create a sanctuary of true family and home.