The enslaved men and women thought that God had answered their prayers asking for rescue, and "to send them consolation" and "to send them freedom".
The sisters hold service at their house which they call "The Daughters of Mary." They keep a statue of the "Black Mary", or "our lady of chains", which was actually a figurehead from the bow of an ancient ship, and August tells the story of how a man by the name of Obadiah, who was enslaved, found this figure.
Lily and Rosaleen also get to see the sisters' religious ceremonies. She watches June's ongoing flirtations with, and refusals of marriage to, her boyfriend Neil. Lily finds out that May had a twin sister, April, who died by suicide with their father's shotgun when they were younger. She begins working as August's bee keeping apprentice to repay her for her kindness, while Rosaleen works around the house. With a new home and a new family for the time being, Lily learns more about the Black Madonna honey that the sisters make. They learn the ways of the Boatwrights, as well as the ways of bee keeping. Believing Lily's Story, August, June, and May invite Lily and Rosaleen to stay with them. When Lily meets the sisters she makes up a story about being an orphan. They are introduced to the Boatwright sisters, the makers of the honey: August, May, and June, who are all black. Rosaleen and Lily receive directions to the origin of the honey, the Boatwright residence. There, they buy lunch at a general store, and Lily recognizes a picture of the same " Black Mary" but on the side of a jar of honey. They spend a night in the woods with little food and little hope before reaching Tiburon. The two begin hitch-hiking toward Tiburon, South Carolina, a place written on the back of an image of the Virgin Mary as a black woman, which Deborah, Lily's mother, had owned. Then, after Rosaleen is arrested for pouring her bottle of "snuff juice" on three white men, Lily breaks her out of the hospital and they decide to leave town. The book opens with Lily's discovery of bees in her bedroom.
They have a no-nonsense maid, Rosaleen, who is a mother figure for Lily. Lily lives in a house with her abusive father, whom she refers to as T. Set in 1964 in the fictitious town of Sylvan, South Carolina, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a 14-year-old white girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. The book was adapted into a 2008 film of the same name directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. It won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards (Paperback), and was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. The book received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial landscape of the civil rights era of the American South. The Secret Life of Bees is a fiction book by the American author Sue Monk Kidd.
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