Book Review: The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd’s best-selling 2002 novel, The Secret Life of Bees, is a captivating story about the power of love, friendship and forgiveness. Through her characters’ struggles with identity and family, she explores the lasting effects of racial injustice in America. In this book review, we will discuss what makes this novel so powerful and how it has impacted generations of readers.