Little Bee is a harrowing and heartening marvel of a novel.” These compelling voices grip the reader’s heart and do not let go even after the book’s hyper-tense final page. “Utterly enthralling page-turner… Novelist Cleave does a brilliant job of making both characters not only believable but memorable…. What unfolds between them… is both surprising and inevitable, thoroughly satisfying if also heart-rending.” In restrained, diamond-hard prose, Cleave alternates between these two characters’ points of view as he pulls the threads of their dark - but often funny - story tight. A tension-filled dramatic ending and plenty of moral dilemmas add up to a satisfying, emotional read.”- Library Journal “Book clubs in search of the next Kite Runner need look no further than this astonishing, flawless novel… Cleave (Incendiary) effortlessly moves between alternating viewpoints with lucid, poignant prose and the occasional lighter note. A sense of humor and an unflinching moral compass allow each woman, and the reader, to believe that even in the face of unspeakable odds, humanity can prevail. Now together, they face a disturbing past and an uncertain future with the help of Sarah’s four-year-old son, Charlie, who refuses to take off his Batman costume. They first met on a beach in Nigeria, where Sarah was vacationing with her husband, Andrew, in an effort to save their marriage after an affair, and their brief encounter has haunted each woman for two years. Sarah is a posh young mother and magazine editor with whom Little Bee shares a dark and tumultuous past. Alone in a foreign country, without a family member, friend, or pound to call her own, she seeks out the only English person she knows.
Little Bee, a young Nigerian refugee, has just been released from the British immigration detention center where she has been held under horrific conditions for the past two years, after narrowly escaping a traumatic fate in her homeland of Nigeria.
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