the dance of the dissident daughter summary

She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Poets & Writers award. Sue Monk Kidd's first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, spent more than one hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than four million copies, and was chosen as the 2004 Book Sense Paperback Book of the Year and Good Morning America's 'Read This!' Book Club pick.

Currently-lives in Charleston, South Carolina.Awards-Poets and Writers Award Katherine Anne Porter.Education-B.S., Texas Christian University.Maternal loss and betrayal, guilt and forgiveness entwine in a story that leads Lily to the single thing her heart longs for most. Lily thinks of them as the calendar sisters and enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, and of the Black Madonna who presides over this household of strong, wise women. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters named May, June, and August. They take off in the only direction Lily can think of, toward a town called Tiburon, South Carolina-a name she found on the back of a picture amid the few possessions left by her mother.

When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily knows it's time to spring them both free.

Since then, her only real companion has been the fierce-hearted, and sometimes just fierce, black woman Rosaleen, who acts as her 'stand-in mother.' Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four.

The dance of the dissident daughter summary