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"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"--Publisher derscription.
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Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Bee Season
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Myla Goldberg
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 323
- ISBN10
- 0307275124
- ISBN13
- 9780307275127
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships, School, Coming Of Age, Girls, Jewish Literature, God, Genealogy, Father, Narration, Cults, Daughters
- Original title
- Bee season
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- "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"--Publisher derscription.