Little Bee

Little Bee

Rating:  Little Bee, by Chris Cleave. Simon  Schuster (2009), 288 pages. Little Bee is a fourteen-year-old girl from Nigeria who is living in England in a detention center for illegal immigrants. She shares the narration of this novel with a woman named...
As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me

As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me

(This review first appeared in February 2005) Rating:  As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me, by Nanci Kincaid.  Back Bay Books (2005), 384 pages. Many literary fiction readers undoubtedly missed out on this book due to the unwieldy chick-lit like title and...