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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers featuring cover art by Jessica Hische.
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K is for Kidd. Set in South Carolina during the tumultuous summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees also ushered young Lily Owens, a girl transformed by the power and divinity of the female spirit, into the canon of modern-day heroines. Lily and her fierce-hearted black stand-in mother” escape the racism of their hometown and find refuge with an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, whose world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna is mesmerizing.
Review
"Kidd's lovely prose, passion for the spiritual life, and early instincts for telling a compelling story should help this book attract a wide readership." Publishers Weekly, starred review
Review
"Thoughtful, moving, often luminous meditations on faith, family, death, and love; on compassion, solitude, and grace." Booklist
Synopsis
Set in South Carolina in 1964,
The Secret Life of Bees will appeal to fans of Kathryn Stockett’s
The Help and Beth Hoffman’s
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and 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 black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's most vicious 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. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love — a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
About the Author
Sue Monk Kidd is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels
The Secret Life of Bees and
The Mermaid Chair, the memoirs
When the Heart Waits,
The Dance of the Dissident, and
Traveling with Pomegranates, which she wrote with her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor, as well as
Firstlight, a collection of her early writings. She lives on an island off the coast of Florida with her husband.
Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazines "New Visual Artists". She has designed for Wes Anderson, McSweeney's, Tiffany and Co, Penguin Books and many others. She resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.