This honey of a first novel (People)--now in paperback--is a coming-of-age story about Eliza Naumann, who amazes everyone by winning a spelling bee.
The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer..
The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity.
Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg\'s first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family.
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.
Myla Goldberg\'s keen eye for detail brings Eliza\'s journey to three-dimensional life.
When Miriam\'s secret life triggers a familial explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos.
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.
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.
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.
Unexpectedly powerful.--Newsweek. . . .
Imagine a Jewish Ordinary People and then some.
This honey of a first novel (People)--now in paperback--is a coming-of-age story about Eliza Naumann, who amazes everyone by winning a spelling bee
