The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free holiday--who should have stayed behind their resort's walls. The tide of that event carries Little Bee back to their world, which she claims she couldn't explain to the girls from her village because they'd have no context for its abundance and calm. But she shows us the infinite rifts in a globalized world, where any distance can be crossed in a day--with the right papers--and "no one likes each other, but everyone likes U2." Where you have to give up the safety you'd assumed as your birthright if you decide to save the girl gazing at you through razor wire, left to the wolves of a failing state.
pg: 271
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Book to Movie: Sarah's Key
One of our book club books "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay
will be in theaters July 22nd, 2011.
This should be an interesting one, many of you all had mixed feelings about
the book and the two story lines…..Lets see which we like in the movie now.
Please let me know if you have any interest in planning a field trip
Saturday or Sunday August 6th/7th.
Trailer link below:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1186176025/
will be in theaters July 22nd, 2011.
This should be an interesting one, many of you all had mixed feelings about
the book and the two story lines…..Lets see which we like in the movie now.
Please let me know if you have any interest in planning a field trip
Saturday or Sunday August 6th/7th.
Trailer link below:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1186176025/
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