Setting is in Sylvan, South Carolina, in 1964 a fourteen year old girl named Lily Owens lives on a peach farm with her abusive father T.Ray. When she’s laying in her bed at night she is often visited by bees. Lily has a terrible secret that continues to haunt her. The secret is that she believes she shot and killed her mother Deborah when she was four years old. Her memory is incomplete and vague, but she remembers an argument between her mother and father and she picks up the gun that her mother had dropped and pulled the trigger.Lily’s father made her believe tha er mother was packing her things and planned on leaving her. Lily has a nanny named Rosaleen Daise who has cared for Lily for ten years. When Rosaleen goes in town to vote the run into three white men who harass
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May acst slow sometimes and gets sad often because she misses June’s twin sister April who committed suicide. June is distant from Lily she also has a bofriend named Neil who wants to marry her.As time passes Rosaleen decides keep a close eye on May while Lily helps August with beekeeping and has a crush on a teenage black worker named Zach who helps with the bees. One Day Lily and Zach go to town to take honey to the law office. When Lily gets in the office she calls her father asking him what's her favorite color he then gets mad and threatens to beat her. More time passed Zach was arrested so he called the house and May picked up the phone finding out the bad news she leaves the house by herself and commits suicide by drowning herself in the river nearby. After the mourning was over Lily waited n Augusts room to tell her about her earlier life but August already knew. August told Lily Everything she needed to know she also explained to her that her mother wasn't leaving her she was coming back to get her. Lily's father figured out where she was and he comes to try and bring her
May acst slow sometimes and gets sad often because she misses June’s twin sister April who committed suicide. June is distant from Lily she also has a bofriend named Neil who wants to marry her.As time passes Rosaleen decides keep a close eye on May while Lily helps August with beekeeping and has a crush on a teenage black worker named Zach who helps with the bees. One Day Lily and Zach go to town to take honey to the law office. When Lily gets in the office she calls her father asking him what's her favorite color he then gets mad and threatens to beat her. More time passed Zach was arrested so he called the house and May picked up the phone finding out the bad news she leaves the house by herself and commits suicide by drowning herself in the river nearby. After the mourning was over Lily waited n Augusts room to tell her about her earlier life but August already knew. August told Lily Everything she needed to know she also explained to her that her mother wasn't leaving her she was coming back to get her. Lily's father figured out where she was and he comes to try and bring her