Remember to stop by the Gold Star Chat Room on Sunday, April 19th at 2:00 P.M. MST for an interesting chat about our book this month, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
This delicious book is a warm and loving portrait of women nurturing other women...some young, some not so young...but all needing a little love to survive. I'm going to rent the DVD and watch this movie before book chat. Anyone else have the time and the inclination to do that, also?
An article by Rita Williams includes the following section of an interview with Sue Monk Kidd:
"Why write about these black women when you're white?" Rita asked her.
"Because I grew up surrounded by black women. I feel they are like hidden royalty dwelling among us, and we need to rupture our old assumptions and develop the willingness to see them as they are," she replied.
When Rita asked her to tell the origin of this story, she grew pensive, closing her dark eyes almost as if she were meditating.
"As a girl, I lived in a country house where at least 50,000 bees hived within the walls of one of our shut-off rooms," she said.
"When I went in there, I could hear humming-honey leaking through the wall and puddling on the floor. That image stayed with me for years before I decided to write it. And then when I finally did begin, I was told it might sell as a short story but not as a novel. I sold the short story...but it wouldn't let me go. Four years later, I had to go back and write the novel."
Brenda
