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The Secret Life of Bees has won several awards for both the novel and its adaptations. The book won the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for paperback, while the 2008 film adaptation won awards like the 2009 People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Drama and the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture. The novel is a coming-of-age story about 14-year-old Lily Owens, who runs away from her abusive father in 1964 South Carolina with her caretaker, Rosaleen. They find shelter with three black beekeeping sisters in Tiburon, where Lily searches for details about her deceased mother and learns about motherhood, identity, and racial injustice in the American South.
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