description: After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Vida Secreta De Las Abajes/secret Life of Bees
titlecomplete: Vida Secreta De Las Abajes/secret Life of Bees (Spanish Edition)
characters: August Boatwright, Lily Owens, May Boatwright, T. Ray Owens, June Boatwright, Rosaleen
genres: Classics, Historical, Adult, Coming Of Age, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Novels, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 1266435
places: Tiburon, South Carolina, The United States of America, South Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
category: Paperback, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Gateway Readers Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: LovelyBooks Leserpreis
category: Allgemeine Literatur
publisher: Demco Media