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I would believe that Sue Monk Kidd's purpose for creating the secret life of bees is for what she had seen as an adolescent living in a small town in 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson signed and approved the civil rights activists at the White House. She witnessed what most people wouldn't witness as much today which is racism, injustice, and segregation unlike no other. She felt as she needed to let off stem and the only way was writing for her. Sue also mentionsaid in an interview that she wanted to create a book that would be more different than what she would normally do, so she decided to make a fiction book with amazing success. I would imagine that even without the awards, success, and all the good critics this book has gotten, Sue

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