The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd, 2001
A motherless girl in 1964 South Carolina runs from her father and finds a household of beekeeping sisters who teach her what family might mean.
Sue Monk Kidd
Feels like hope, family and society.
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Sue Monk Kidd was born in Albany, Georgia, in 1948 and grew up in Sylvester; before this novel she published spiritual memoirs, including When the Heart Waits.
When beauty enters the body before the mind can name it.
I didn’t know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only thing I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through to something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way. Books by Sue Monk Kidd
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd, 2014
Two women in nineteenth-century Charleston—one born to privilege, one born enslaved—grow up entwined and learn what it costs to claim a self.
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