Bee Season

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.

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This "intense and enjoyable" debut novel filled with "interesting characters" is a bittersweet coming-of-age story in which a girl with an extraordinary talent for spelling examines the unraveling fabric of a family, with a startling outcome. "A gem of a book." "This book is A-W-E-S-O-M-E and captivating." "Two thumbs up."

After graduating from Oberlin in 1993 with an English degree, Myla Goldberg spent a year in Prague writing and teaching English to former Communist ministers before settling in Brooklyn, New York to pen her "honey of a first novel" (according to People magazine), Bee Season.