Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Captured when she stowed away on a cargo ship to England, she spent two years in a British detention center before being released with illegal status when another inmate seduced a guard. Her only possessions are the driver's license and phone number of an Englishman she met on a beach in Nigeria while being hunted. Her phone call to him will have far-reaching and unforeseen consequences.

Readers of The Kite Runner and Brick Lane will enjoy this suspenseful story of refugee life, told in fluid prose which captures the perspectives of both Little Bee and the English woman who provides sanctuary.

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