Bee Season
Author: Myla Goldberg
An eccentric family falls apart at the seams in an absorbing debut that find congruencies between the school spelling-bee circuit, Jewish mysticism, Eastern religious cults and compulsive behaviour. Eleven-year-old Eliza Naumann feels like the dullest resident of her household – her elder brother is an overachiever; her mother is a lawyer and her father is a self-taught s….Read More
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