Little Bee by Chris Cleave - 2012-04-05

Anchor Canada, 4/24/2012 12:00:01 A. paperback. Good. 0.9000 in x 7.9000 in x 5.1000 in. Bumps on corners* Crease on cover*

Doubleday Can Titles, 2012. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday Can Titles, 2012. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

" Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis a terrifying scene that no reader will forget. Afterward, Sarah and Little Bee might expect never to see each other again. But Little Bee finds Sarah's husband's wallet in the sand and smuggles herself on board a cargo vessel with his address in mind. She spends two years in detention in England before making her way to Sarah's house, with what will prove to be devastating timing. -Chapter by chapter, alternating between Little Bee's voice and Sarah?s, Chris Cleave wholly and caringly portrays two very different women trying to cope with events they?d never imagined. Little Bee is experiencing all the fullness and emptiness of the rich world for the first time, and her observations are hopeful, charming and piercing: Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl,? she says: Everyone would be… Read More