CD Audiobook
The secret life of bees : a novel / Sue Monk Kidd.
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four under tragic circumstances clouded by time and secrecy. Later, she found a fiercely protective surrogate in her abusive father's outspoken housekeeper, Rosaleen. Ignoring differences in age and color as well as the racial hatred that seethed during the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, these two unlikely companions set off on a seemingly aimless pilgrimage.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781611762570
- ISBN: 161176257X
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Audio, [2014]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. Duration: 10:00:00. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jenna Lamia. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Teenage girls > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. Maternal deprivation > Fiction. South Carolina > Fiction. Race relations > Fiction. Beekeepers > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Domestic fiction. |
Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owens lost her beloved mother when she was only four under tragic circumstances clouded by time and secrecy. Later, she found a fiercely protective surrogate in her abusive father's outspoken housekeeper, Rosaleen. Ignoring differences in age and color as well as the racial hatred that seethed during the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, these two unlikely companions set off on a seemingly aimless pilgrimage.
