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Title: It was a tough act to follow
Review: The Secret Life of Bees is one of my favorite books, and I have been waiting anxiously for this novel to arrive. While Sue Monks Kidd is a talented writer, there is a huge hole in the story regarding the main character's life-long guilt, fostered by her own mother's lies. I kept waiting for the main character to confront her mother and hash it out, but it never really happens. The fact that a young child could be left to harbor such guilt while the mother just plods along selfishly is just too unappealing to me.
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