Little Bee

I would have ranked this higher, were it not for the ridiculous hype on the jacket and the annoying Editor's letter at the front; all of which tell me that is book will change my life, that it's a masterpiece. This book stands on its own without needing it. I also pretty fundamentally disagreed with......more

Chris Cleave's ability to float effortlessly between two distinct ethnic voices (Little Bee, a refugee from Nigeria, and Sarah, a young widow in England) as their stories spin out and around and through one another was nearly mystical. Years before this book opens, the lives of Sarah and Little Bee v......more

Although almost fantasy like at times with the plot directions and some of the supporting cast, Cleave paints a bleak (true?) view of the British immigration system and an even better critique of how we in the West could be at the root of some of the violence in the Developing World through secondar......more

I generally pass on books written by a man in the voice of a woman. And a white man writing in a black woman's voice? No, thanks. But this book gives nothing away up front, and I was hooked before I could worry much about the writer's intentions. The chapters alternate between Little Bee, a Nigerian......more

i can't say anything about the plot of this book because the dust jacket pleads with me not to and i am nothing if not obedient. (but you can read plot points in all the other reviews by rebels) i will say i loved it enough to order in and set aside his earlier book, which had never called out to me......more