Bee Season: A Novel
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul inducts her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks upon a lone quest for spiritual fulfillment. When Miriam's secret life triggers a familial explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos.
Myla Goldberg's keen eye for detail brings Eliza's journey to three-dimensional life. As she rises from classroom obscurity to the blinding lights and outsized expectations of the National Bee, Eliza's small pains and large joys are finely wrought and deeply felt.
Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer.
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Recent Reviews
- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-24-2009
- Yawn
I picked this book up at the library off the "Staff Picks" display. I really enjoyed it at first, and liked Eliza a lot, but then when it started to cover terribly old ground in unremarkable ways (female frigidity, male autoeroticsm,...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-08-2009
- Vivid, not a book for everyone
There's a lot of darkness and dysfunction in this story, for all that it seems so cheerful in premise. I was disturbed by watching Miriam's collapsing sanity, and Saul's turn to cultist fanaticism. This work is creepy in a way that...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-13-2009
- Onward to Victory
Eliza Naumann is an average elementary school student with modest goals, because she was slotted into that post by not making the grade to be named to the highly-coveted Talented and Gifted class.But she seemingly catches lightning in...
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- 2/5
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- Posted: Feb-27-2009
- Darkly sad and empty ...
I have such mixed feelings about this book. The writing kept me engaged, but the story and conclusion left me strangely empty and sad. Not enough loose ends were tied together, the story ends but is not concluded.
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-08-2009
- Vivid, not a book for everyone
There's a lot of darkness and dysfunction in this story, for all that it seems so cheerful in premise. I was disturbed by watching Miriam's collapsing sanity, and Saul's turn to cultist fanaticism. This work is creepy in a way that...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-01-2008
- Heartwrenching
This book caught me off guard. It started off so well; great plot, strong themes, interesting language & ideas. But somewhere just after the middle of the story, I realized it was headed for a tragic end. Elly surprises everyone,...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-24-2009
- Yawn
I picked this book up at the library off the "Staff Picks" display. I really enjoyed it at first, and liked Eliza a lot, but then when it started to cover terribly old ground in unremarkable ways (female frigidity, male autoeroticsm,...
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