The Nigerian teen, who renames herself 'Little Bee,' was on the run with her beautiful older sister.

OL5845214W Page_number_confidence 91.22 Pages 298 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1448738296 The women's worlds collided on a beach in Nigeria, some time before the book takes place. Right at the start of the book, Little Bee tells us how she wishes she were a British pound coin instead of an African girl: then, at least people would be glad to see her coming. On the voyage, she has nightmares about the horrors she has seen, and after British immigration authorities lock her in the detention center she continues to suffer traumatic nightmares each night. Urn:lcp:littlebee00clea:epub:634390cf-7096-4d54-ba4e-a19b7d08e1dd Extramarc Cornell University Foldoutcount 0 Identifier littlebee00clea Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1jh4pc0x Isbn 9781416589631ġ416589635 Lccn 2008030689 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL16975833M Openlibrary_edition Little Bee recalls her escape from Nigeria, during which she stowed away on a cargo ship carrying tea. This woman, called Little Bee, makes her way to the home of Andrew and Sarah ORourke, the only people she knows in England. In this novel, a young Nigerian woman is released from an immigration detention center where she has been held for two years after sneaking aboard a British tea ship. 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.

Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:06:52 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA179001 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Little Bee is the second novel by writer Chris Cleave. 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 by Chris Cleave