Little Bee is a harrowing and heartening marvel of a novel.”- Seattle Post-Intelligencer 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…. So it is with the charmingly named title character in Chris Cleave’s brilliant and unforgettable Little Bee… sequined with lustrous turns of phrase, spanning two continents and driven by real-life global concerns… What elevates this novel even further is Cleave’s forceful call for all of us, the floating masses of a globalized, socially isolating modern world, to look after one other.”- The Seattle Times “Every now and then, you come across a character in a book whose personality is so salient and whose story carries such devastating emotional force it’s as if she becomes a fixed part of your consciousness. Cleave makes the reader think about political issues and care about his characters.”- USA Today “Cleave has a Zola-esque ability to write big, and deeply. Cleave paces the story beautifully, lacing it with wit, compassion, and, even at the darkest moments, a searing ray of hope.”- The Boston Globe In Chris Cleave’s heartwarming and heartbreaking Little Bee… The tone veers quickly between humor and horror, a very dark, biting humor to be sure, but usually skating along a thin blade of irony, the kind to make you laugh with a little grimace…The shift in perspective when we finally learn of Little Bee’s experience that fateful day on the beach is viscerally stunning and would be nearly impossible to bear had we not known of Little Bee’s strength and resilience. “…One of the most vividly memorable and provocative characters in recent contemporary fiction.
An affecting story of human triumph.”- The New York Times Book Review Cleave uses his emotionally charged narrative to challenge his readers’ conceptions of civility, of ethical choice…The character and voice of Little Bee reveal Cleave at his finest…. “… immensely readable and moving second novel…. What unfolds between them… is both surprising and inevitable, thoroughly satisfying if also heart-rending.”- The Washington Post 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.
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