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A A A Comments By Susan Froyd Thursday, Feb 18 2010

Good news for folks who like to talk books over a cozy potluck: Chris Cleave’s book-club-ready novel Little Bee is out in paperback. Inspired by the London author’s time spent years earlier listening to the desperate stories of people living in a British detention camp for refugees seeking asylum, the book is a fictional account of one such refugee, Little Bee, who flees tribal violence in her native Nigeria and ends up, connected by a thread of mutual experience, in the suburban home of a comfortable couple. Told in the tag-team voices of Little Bee and Sarah, the couple’s better half, Little Bee works on both a human level and a more universal one, pulling together the roles of individuals as they wade through the bigger picture.

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Cleave will read from and sign copies of the highly readable book, touted by Library Journal as “the next Kite Runner,” tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue. For information, visit www.tatteredcover.com or call 303-322-7727.
Tue., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., 2010

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