The secret life of bees

"Set in South Carolina in 1964, ... [this is] the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina-- a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping si...