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January brings us to Debbie's house and we'll be reading and discussing The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

"Lily is a wonderfully petulant and self-absorbed adolescent, and Kidd deftly portrays her sense of injustice as it expands to accommodate broader social evils. At the same time the political aspects of Lily's growth never threaten to overwhelm the personal. The core of this story is Lily's search for a mother, and she finds one in a place she never expected.... She finds her Madonna in a woman named August Boatwright, the proprietor of a honey farm that's a harbor of quiet civility. August and her sisters, June and May, are no mere vehicles for Lily's salvation; they are individuals as fully imagined as the sweltering, kudzu-carpeted landscape that surrounds them."

From the author: I grew up in the 1950s and 60s in a tiny town tucked among the pine-lands and peanut fields of Southwest Georgia. A "beautiful nowhere", my urbane college roommate called it the first time she visited. For me, though, it was an "enduring somewhere", a long-suffering lap of Southern life...more...

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