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The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh and unforgiving father, she has only one friend, Rosaleen, a black servant. She also knows that she cannot accept. The Secret Life of Bees Now, at fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother's love. Some books MAY have a red or black dot or line on the edge of the page by the spine.
- The Invention of Wings
- The Mermaid Chair
- The Secret Life of Bees
Reviews
Mister
Brought to light they densities during the time of slavery and the Torturous lives a lad. It’s racism and misogyny, which everyone pretty much knows by now, I would think.
A. Daley
Actually end up getting the audiobook as well. Black and white alike, they do their level best to abide and overcome the constraints of their caste, mostly learning by trial and error, just like true mortals. I am an educated, voting woman with access to birth control and the right to have an abortion, and I have black friends and colleagues. In doing so, she faced ostracism, threats, and loneliness, and risked arrest and punishment.
Tess Host
The characters are beautiful and heartbreaking. It was a great choice 12 thumbs up 👍🏻I really enjoyed how the Author presented the characters. Gave a great historical account of these times in the south. Loved hearing the voices it brought home the emotions.
Arlinda Roman
Though I can’t believe it took me two years to pull The Invention of Wings off the shelf, the timing of books is an ever-funny thing. A certain sick, terrified darkness comes over me whenever I read anything about slavery, as it should. I can’t stop from hurrying past scenes of abuse or torture, or skipping them altogether, but I will never be able to un-see the “one legged punishment” once doled out to Handful’s mother, Charlotte, in which a belt was tied between her bent leg and her neck, choking her if she straightened her leg. All I can say is that in the hands of Sue Monk Kidd, it is somehow worth it.
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