Secret Lives of Bees Condition:Well Read the Mad Hatter and the

the Mad Hatter and the rest of Wonderland's beloved cast

friendship and love'

their fellow readers—are reminded how books can be comforting

the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor

Secret Lives of Bees Condition:Well Read the Mad Hatter and theSet in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce hearted black "stand in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black