Bee Season: A Novel

by Myla Goldberg | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0385498802 Global Overview for this book
Registered by tobysrus of Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on 8/14/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by tobysrus from Cambridge, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, August 14, 2005
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An eccentric family falls apart at the seams in an absorbing debut that finds congruencies between the elementary school spelling-bee circuit, Jewish mysticism, Eastern religious cults and compulsive behavior. Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann feels like the dullest resident of a house full of intellectuals--her older brother, Aaron, is an overachiever; her mother, Miriam, is a lawyer; and her father, Saul, is a self-taught scholar and a cantor at the community synagogue. She surprises herself and the rest of the Naumanns when she discovers a rare aptitude for spelling, winning her school and district bees with a surreal surge of mystical insight, in which letters seem to take on a life of their own. Saul shifts his focus from Aaron to Eliza, devoting his afternoons to their practice sessions, while neglected Aaron joins the Hare Krishnas. Seduced by his own inner longings, Saul sees in Eliza the potential to fulfill the teachings of the Kabbalah scholar Abulafia, who taught that enlightenment could be reached through strategic alignments of letters and words. Eliza takes to this new discipline with a desperate, single-minded focus.

Released 18 yrs ago (8/18/2005 UTC) at Beacon Hill - Starbucks/Charles and Beacon Streets in Boston, Massachusetts USA

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Journal Entry 3 by honey1982 from Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, August 23, 2005
My darling aliaskris29 picked this up for me while on vacation in Boston. Thanks for sharing. It sounds great. Can't wait to get to it.

Journal Entry 4 by honey1982 from Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Monday, February 6, 2006
This is a wonderful story about a little girl's struggle against the world. I felt all her senses deeply from her elation at being told she belonged to her absolute sureness of what she had to do. Thanks for sharing!

I'm reserving this for vibrant-art, as it was on her wishlist and she happens to be hosting a bookring I'm in.

Journal Entry 5 by vibrant-art on Thursday, February 23, 2006
Just received this as a RABCK....thanks so much! Looking forwared to reading it....

Journal Entry 6 by vibrant-art at Polyclinique at 1435 St Martin Ouest in Laval, Québec Canada on Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Released 18 yrs ago (3/22/2006 UTC) at Polyclinique at 1435 St Martin Ouest in Laval, Québec Canada

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