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Intro. Little Bee Summary. Next. Chapter One. Sixteen-year-old Nigerian refugee Little Bee has spent the past two years in an immigration detention center in Essex, England. In 2007, Little Bee is released from the detention center with three other women, none of whom have their papers or documentation granting them asylum status.
Little Bee, a 2010 novel by Chris Cleave, follows a teenage Nigerian refugee as her life intertwines with Sarah Summers, Andrew O’Rourke, and Charlie O’Rourke. Cleave imagines a singular scene on a beach in Nigeria that unites Little Bee to the O’Rourke-Summers family.
Little Bee is a story about refugees, cross-cultural relationships, and the enduring human spirit amidst horrific world events. In its portrayal of a young girl’s survival amidst greater international conflicts, Little Bee shares much in common with best-selling novel The Kite Runner by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.
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. This woman, called Little Bee, makes her way to the home of Andrew and Sarah O'Rourke, the only people she knows in England.
Little Bee is narrated by Little Bee (not her real name) and Sarah (an English woman who you will meet in a minute) in alternating chapters. Little Bee, who kicks off the story, wishes she was a British pound coin, instead of a Nigerian girl. Unlike her, coins travel freely and safely.
This novel is told from two distinct perspectives: Little Bee, an illegal refugee, and Sarah, a British journalist. These two characters lives are entwined one fateful day on the beach in...
The Other Hand, also known as Little Bee, is a 2008 novel by British author Chris Cleave. It is a dual narrative story about a Nigerian asylum-seeker and a British magazine editor, who meet during the oil conflict in the Niger Delta, and are re-united in England several years later.
