Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees -- Gables

Start: Dec 2 2011 12:00 pm

Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, The Secret Life of Bees (Penguin, $20) , spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than five million copies, and was made into a major motion picture featuring a star-studded cast.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the book's debut, Books & Books has invited Sue to Miami for a READERS’ CIRCLE SECRET LIFE OF BEES LUNCH at Books & Books to celebrate this beautiful, new special edition of this major literary triumph. RSVP now to marketing@booksandbooks.com. The $25 buffet lunch includes drink, dessert, tax and tip. Space is limited.

You’ll sit with Sue and listen to her talk as you enjoy lunch at the bookstore and celebrate a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells 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 sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household.