The secret life of the bee

Number of pages: 496. Author: Su Monk Kid. Publishing house: Madarek for Publishing and Distribution. Year of publication: 2020. Women are the best beekeepers because they have special abilities to love creatures that sting. That comes from years of love for children and men. A novel about the lives of five women in a pink house, similar to the house of kind witches in fairy tales, they make honey, songs, and stories. Published in 1964, and was the best-selling novel at that time according to the New York Times magazine, and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Literature. It is a novel about betrayal and loss telling the story of Lily Owens, a white girl who lost her mother at the age of four and was forced to live with her neglectful father who mistreats her, and also had to live with the guilt caused by her mother’s death. She escapes from her father’s house and seeks refuge in the house of a black woman living with her sisters who works in beekeeping, so Lily reveals not only the secrets of bee life and honey making but also secrets related to her mother’s life and the truth about her death.