South Carolina, 1964 – Lily Owens is fourteen, she’s white, and her mother was killed. These are all facts of her life. But there’s mysteries, too. How was her mother connected to the Boatwright sisters, three Black beekeepers? Is her father looking for her? Was she the one who killed her mother?

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