March+2011

=**March 2011 - Little Bee by Chris Cleave**=


 * [[image:4078927.jpg]] ||  || **Amazon Best of the Month, February 2009:** The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free holiday--who should have stayed behind their resort's walls. The tide of that event carries Little Bee back to their world, which she claims she couldn't explain to the girls from her village because they'd have no context for its abundance and calm. But she shows us the infinite rifts in a globalized world, where any distance can be crossed in a day--with the right papers--and "no one likes each other, but everyone likes U2." Where you have to give up the safety you'd assumed as your birthright if you decide to save the girl gazing at you through razor wire, left to the wolves of a failing state. --Mari Malcolm -- ||


 * Food** - No food theme this month, although in honor of the character Little Bee I may attempt to make a Nigerian dessert.

Dawn: Cranberry Orange Bread Meg- Yummy Chocolate Cake Raisse-Ande's mint chocolate cookies LVL and Kristen: Chic-Fil-A nugget tray Beth - Cauliflower salad Mary-Spicy Black Bean Dip Colleen-Macarroni salad Kristina- Spicy Chiken Pesto Pasta Shawn - veggie pizza dip


 * Directions to Lauren's (8928 Camden Park Dr, Raleigh, NC 27613):**

Once you turn onto Camden Park, my unit will be the first on the right. Please be sure to park in a spot marked with "V" for visitors. There are a couple as you come in, and a ton at the end of the street.


 * [|From Durham (I-40)]
 * [|From Durham (Hwy 70)]
 * [|From Butner]
 * [|From Oxford & Creedmoor]
 * [|From Wake Forest & Raleigh (I-540)]