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It is a peek into a completely unknown and different world of bee keepers. the chasm between the disparate worlds of people having different colored skin pigments is disheartening. Why does world constantly invent ways to divide and segregate and differentiate? It is a chronicle of day to day happenings and not a thriller, just saying so that reader is well aware of the pace which is to be expected.
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Cliched but mostly enjoyable and heart-warming. Deals with some tough topics, but in a pretty kid-friendly way, without a ton of depth given to them. There's also some of the obvious cliches involved in having a story in which race relationships in the South in the '60s plays a large role and the main character is a white child, who finds a mother figure in a bunch of black women. Not exactly a surprise that this was written by a white woman. The prose is pretty good though, and some of the sad
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