Plot

Plot- Exposition, rising action ,climax ,falling action, resolution.

Lily Owens, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. T. Ray, her father, is abusive. Lily remembers very last memory of her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was a small kid. Lily thinks that she did a horrible thing in her moms death. T. Ray tells Lily that on the day her mother died. Deborah had returned home to pick up just her clothes, and to leave Lily behind.She then thinks she needs to run away with Rosaleen her nanny.
On the way, Lily feels free, as if a new life has begun for her. Rosaleen feels annoyed that Lily has broken the law only to head toward a town that she thinks her mother went to. Relaying on a picture of a black Mary.
Searching for this honey maker, she comes across the bright pink house of August Boatwright and her sisters. August invites Lily and Rosaleen to stay, although Lily makes up a fake story so she can stay at the house . August decides that Rosaleen will help her sister May Boatwright around the house and Lily will learn beekeeping.
Lily meets the honey farm helper, Zach an African American boy on she starts to crush on. He also starts having feelings for her as well and buys Lily a notebook so she can write stories.
Lily asks May if she ever knew anyone named Deborah Fontanel and finds out that she has. Lily now knows for sure that her mother once had been at the Boatwright house.
On her way to talk to August, Lily decides instead to ride with Zach into town to buy pieces for the car. In town Zach is with a group of black boys that assault a white man, and the entire group gets taken to jail. When Lily goes home, Clayton, the lawyer, has arrived to tell the Boatwrights that Zach has been arrested. They decide to hide the news from May, the sister that has emotional problems , because they know how upset she’d be. But May finds out and leaves the house alone. May then kills herself by drowning herself in the river. The next week is taken up with mourning and a funeral. Once another boy confesses, the crime that was committed against the white man Zach is let out of jail, unpunished.
Lily finds herself alone with Zach. He kisses her, and they vow to try to be together in the future.
Lily then goes to August’s room to wait for her. When August gets to her own room, Lily tells her the truth of her life, of how she ended up in Tiburon and of how she killed her mother. Lily’s worst fear, that Deborah had already left her when she returned home and was shot to death. Deborah had gone to the house only to pick up her clothes.
Days later, after she has recovered from her grief, her father arrives at the Boatwright house. T. Ray is angry and violent, Lily finally has the strength to confront him about the past and to call him “Daddy.” August convinces him to let Lily stay in Tiburon.
In the fall, she returns to school, which she attends with Zach and where she gets other friends. August and her community become Lily’s new family, and finally, Lily develops into a loved and loving person. She is finally happy with herself.