Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina, at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
year: 2007
call number/section: 495.1
subjects: teenage girls, south carolina, fiction, women, racism, bee culture, teenagers, chinese language, beekeeping, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, bildungsromans, domestic fiction