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mvmckenzie16 's review for:
Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
this is the second time the library has sent this to me. last time, i was too caught up with s.f. let's see if it fares better this time.
ETA - i liked this less and less as it developed. at first i was absorbed by both stories, though more so with little bee's. then i became very frustrated with sarah & lawrence's white guilt, especially the excessive concentration on the affair and her conflicting feelings about her magazine job (which reminded me VERY much of a favorite margaret atwood short-story character, much to sarah's detriment). but i just could NOT get past the ending, which felt so wrong to me. like cleave didn't know how to wrap things up and threw everything at the wall to see if it stuck, and still had little bee sacrificing herself for the sake of the white child. i kept wondering if it was little bee's dream on the plane. anyway, if i keep writing this, i'm going to end up downgrading it to 2 stars.
ETA - i liked this less and less as it developed. at first i was absorbed by both stories, though more so with little bee's. then i became very frustrated with sarah & lawrence's white guilt, especially the excessive concentration on the affair and her conflicting feelings about her magazine job (which reminded me VERY much of a favorite margaret atwood short-story character, much to sarah's detriment). but i just could NOT get past the ending, which felt so wrong to me. like cleave didn't know how to wrap things up and threw everything at the wall to see if it stuck, and still had little bee sacrificing herself for the sake of the white child. i kept wondering if it was little bee's dream on the plane. anyway, if i keep writing this, i'm going to end up downgrading it to 2 stars.