“Little Bee” is a book full of sadness. I started reading the book, thinking that it was about the 16-year-old Nigerian orphan, Little Bee, but the book turned out to be more about the upper class white family her life is intertwined with. The characters are well defined. The book is well written – it never lags, and it has an actual ending that makes the heart swell, and then weep for doing so. But I thought it was a little contrived.

4/5
304 pages

Related posts:

1. Book 9: The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
2. Book 11: Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
3. Book 7: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi