![]() 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. Hudson Books – Top Ten Books of the Year.Louis Dispatch – Top 50 Books of the Year Chicago Tribune – Favorite Novels of 2009.NPR “On Point” – Best Books of the Year. ![]() ![]() Santa Monica Citywide Reads selection 2010.A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. ![]()
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