This was on my "one of these days I need to read that" list. In the early 1960s fourteen year old Lily runs away from her abusive father with Rosaleen, their housekeeper who is in trouble with the law after being beaten while trying to register to vote. Lily's mother died by Lily's hand in an accidental shooting when Lily was four. The only place she can connect to her mother is the town of Tiburon, South Carolina, the place that is written on the back of a Black Madonna picture that belonged to her mother. Lily ends up at the home of a family of black women beekeepers who teach her about life, love, the problems of southern African-Americans during the Civil Rights battles, standing up for oneself, and bees, of course. It's a good story although there were times when the predictability of the story nearly stopped me from reading it.
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