Little Bee

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
I picked this up on pure recommendation by the bookseller. I do not normally buy brand new hardback books by authors I've never heard of. In fact, I don't think I ever have. I was not disappointed, however.

Little Bee follows the impossibly entangled story of a Nigerian girl and a British husband and wife (and son). In the book's dust jacket it says it can't give away what happens. I don't feel I can either, except to say that this is a haunting, fictional story based in a reality that we'd all like to assume doesn't exist. It's very, very good, and Cleave has a very strong ability to convey human emotion, need, and hurt.