A review by bubothereader
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

3.0

  • Very easy to read, but not sophomoric. 
  • Dealt with suicide and the aftermath of death almost well—I found explanations about grief, flippant.
  • I think Lily should've found about being abandoned much earlier, but she deals with it in a believable manner.
  • I like the way Kidd dealt with race by subtly showing how stupid racism is—that it's a trait people choose to have and that it's completely harbored by ignorance. She even tried to have an interracial relationship in the 60s.
  • Very poignant relationship with her father. However, everything that occurred with her mother was quite far-fetched. 
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