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| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Kim Ellington |
| Genre | Historical Fiction |
| Published | November 8, 2001 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 336 pp. |
The Secret Life of Bees is a novel by the American author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial landscape of the civil rights era of the American South. The book received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards (Paperback), and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.