![]() ![]() They use storytelling to work through their grief and haunting they work to “save” one another. Sarah and Little Bee tell these stories, from their perspectives, back to one another in Sarah’s home. Both Sarah and Andrew assume that both girls die. ![]() Andrew refuses to cut off his finger to appease the soldiers, and so Sarah does, thus saving Little Bee, but not her sister. There, Little Bee and her sister, fleeing an oil war in their village, ask the couple to help them escape the men who want to kill them. Years before, after Sarah began an affair with Lawrence Osborn, she and Andrew took a holiday to Nigeria, paid for by a sponsor of the magazine that Sarah edits. Little Bee begins to explain the horror of the refugee to her Western audience: she knows that “horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it” (45), but for her and her fellow-refugees, horror is something they live with every day.Īfter Little Bee shows up at Sarah and Andrew’s house on the day of his funeral, with his driver’s license in hand, Little Bee and Sarah slowly unravel the events that have brought them together. ![]() The four wander to a farm where one, traumatized by her memories, hangs herself. ![]() Yevette, a spirited Jamaican girl, bribes a guard with her body, and he releases her, Little Bee, and two other girls into the countryside with no further assistance. The story begins in an immigrant detention center outside of London, on the day when Little Bee is to be released. ![]()
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