![]() Her use of the Queen's English mixed with wit and spirit beyond her age make her a bright spot in today's literature. One cannot help but fall in love with Little Bee, whose spirit seems unbreakable in the wake of human tragedy. From this comes an unlikely, but inspiring, interdependence. Remembering a life-altering encounter with Little Bee on a beach in Nigeria, Sarah feels she must help the teen however she can. ![]() Andrew is gone, and Sarah is struggling to pull her life together for the sake of her son. ![]() They are the only people Little Bee knows.īut when Little Bee arrives, there is no happy welcome. When Little Bee is finally released from the detention center, there is only one place she can think of going - to the home of Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke in the suburbs of London. She has done nothing wrong, save try to escape from certain death in her home country of Nigeria. Little Bee is an inmate of two years at the Black Hill Immigration Removal Centre in the United Kingdom. ![]() "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave is one such novel.Ĭleave has created a beautiful story that will alter the way readers look at immigration. Some books have a way of capturing a reader's attention from their opening paragraphs. "LITTLE BEE," by Chris Cleave, Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, $14 (reprint) ![]()
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