The Secret Life of Bees was very beautifully written. Kidd illustrates bees throughout the book in such a symbolic way and it always comes back to how bees love. This book has humor, drama, tragedy, and quite a bit of language...but I highly recommend this for a book club to read and reflect on. I also recommend renting the movie to this book because it was very good! It stars Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah...etc