Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was just four years old. Now, at the age of fourteen, she yearns for forgiveness and a mother’s love. Living on a peach farm in South Caroline with her harsh and unyielding father, she had only one friend, Rosaleen, a black servant.
When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice, the pair follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world as about the mystery surrounding her mother.
Critical praise:
" A moving first novel...Lily is an authentic and winning character and her story is compellingly told. The bees presage her journey toward self-acceptance, faith and freedom that is at the heart of this novel." (USA Today)
"Fully imagined...the core of this story is Lily's search for a mother, and she finds one in a place she never expected." (The New York Times Book Review)
"This is the story of a young girl's journey toward healing, and of the intrinsic sacredness of living in the world. Simply wonderful." (Anne Rivers Siddons)
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