Setting of The Secret Life of Bees

The novel, The Secret Life of Bees, mainly takes place in Tiburon, South Carolina, on a Honey Farm belonging to The Boatright Sisters (August, June, and May). It all occurs in 1964 right as the Civil Rights Act was passed. The reason Lily and Rosaleen go to Tiburon in the first place is because Lily found a honey label with that city written on it, that belonged to her mother. Lily missed her mother tremendously and would do anything in order to know anything more about her. I think that if the book was set somewhere else, it wouldn't be the same. Being set on a honey farm is pretty much the main plot of the whole story, however if it was in a different city, still on a honey farm, I think it would have worked just fine.