The Chancellor's Reading Club selection for 2008
is The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.
Sue Monk Kidd was born and raised in small-town
Georgia. Drawn to writing as an adolescent, she pursued an education
and career in nursing before returning to writing. After writing the
spiritual memoirs God's Joyful Surprise and The Dance of
the Dissident Daughter, she turned to fiction. Her
first novel was The Secret Life of Bees, published in 2002.
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Experience the story of a fourteen-year-old girl
who leaves her abusive father to travel with her caregiver in search
of links to her dead mother. While living with a family of
beekeeping sisters, she experiences "family" for the first time and
makes peace with her past.
Incoming freshmen must purchase The Secret Life
of Bees and read it before Orientation begins on August 16.
Over four million copies have been sold. The Secret Life of
Bees can be found new and used at most bookstores and online.
A few examples include
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