Just finished Little Bee by Chris Cleave. It was a pleasure to read, but the ending - well, it just wasn't the ending anyone would hope for, but what a great read! Sadly, I couldn't get it in paper form, so I had to listen to the audio version. Acclimating to the narrator's thick accent took awhile, but soon I settled right in and was immensely disappointed every time I had to turn it off. (That's downside of audio books - once you arrive at your destination, the fun is always postponed.)
The book is a dual narrative by the main characters, Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee and Sarah, a British magazine ediror, who met on a beach in the midst of a Nigerian oil crisis. The events that took place on the beach that day forever severed and yet sealed the characters in the book together. You, the reader, become quite impatient to learn exactly what happened on the beach and so begins heady love affair with Little Bee.
For me, the book is finished, but for you it has just begun - I hope you RUN out and get yourself a copy! Enjoy!
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