In chapter 4, Lily enters a world where three African-American women beekeepers are in control of their lives(without men) and offer to teach Lily the business. In order to facilitate Lena's envisioning some of the details of the process of beekeeping, I first showed a short video illustrating the process from collecting the honey from the hives to bottling the finished product. We then read Chapter four, noting the author's use of the word "secret" and relating this theme to the title of the novel.We further discussed the theme of racial discrimination as Lily begins to recognize the folly of her own racial prejudice .