“You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside.” Sue Monk Kidd’s coming of age novel, The Secret Life of Bees is set in 1964 just as the voting rights act is passed. Lily, the 14-year old protagonist lives with her father, T-Ray, a white peach … Continue reading The Secret Life of Bees… Growing up fast in South Carolina