Secret Life of Bees, The

Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only real companion has been the fierce-hearted, black woman Rosaleen, who acts as her "stand-in mother." When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in town, they take off toward a town called Tiburon - a name she found on the back of a picture left by her mother. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters named May, June, and August.