Bee Season Paperback | Pages: 275 pages

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Original Title:	Bee Season
ISBN:	0385498802 (ISBN13: 9780385498807)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eliza Naumann, Saul Naumann, Miriam Naumann, Aaron Naumann
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2001), Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2001), Edward Lewis Wallant Award (2001), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award Nominee (2001), Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2000)

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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. Myla Goldberg's keen eye for detail brings Eliza's journey to three-dimensional life. 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. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer.

Mention Of Books Bee Season

Title	:	Bee Season
Author	:	Myla Goldberg
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 275 pages
Published	:	May 15th 2001 by Anchor (first published May 2nd 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Adult Fiction. Contemporary

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What a disturbed and messed up family..... religious obsession in any form, any religion, is warped and vile to my senses. The father here is so caught up in the pursuit of his 'perfect' view of Judaism and what behavior does or doesn't fit his picture, that he has totally failed to see that every member of his family is being damaged, by his obsession. He ignores his daughter in favor of training his son to fulfil his own (the father's) dreams, and then rejects his son in favor of his daughter

The word-nerd in me loved the first half of Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, a story half about perfectly average Eliza Naumann and her pursuit to win a spelling bee (and garner the attention of her less-than-attentive parents), the other half about Eliza's family, which seems on the surface to be perfectly normal, but threatens to embark upon paths of destruction as the story progresses. Maybe it's because I'm not Jewish, but the story starts to decoct into a kaleidoscope of nonsense when a) Eliza's

Bee Season exists at the baffling intersection of Spelling Bees, Jewish mysticism, Hare Krishna recruitment, and mental illness. Each family member has a sort of unconventional relationship with the others, although it's difficult to see how very strange things are until they start to fall apart. (Oh, Chinua Achebe, you go everywhere with me). The very average, younger sister becomes the favored child when Eliza suddenly displays her surprising aptitude for turning words into carefully placed

The first third was ok. The second third was tedious. The last third was awful.I was sad I read this book.



The one character in the book who takes LSD is the one who DOESN'T go insane. I just wanted to start with that though it's not really accurate or relevant. Eliza doesn't go insane. She has an experience that some might call insane since it's extreme and out of the ordinary. I like to think it was a true mystical experience and that having tasted the ultimate, she decides to say "No thank you." Or maybe what she says is "That will surfice." This is a family of seekers--both of God and of

I had heard of this book...but somehow had never read it. [23, 902 ratings]....Not even sure why I had missed reading Myla Goldberg until very recently. I understand theres a movie of Bee Season, with Richard Greer and Juliette Binoche. Havent seen it either.... but Im now interested. Two-for-two: 5 star ratings for me with Myla Goldberg. I loved her book, Feast Your Eyes....( also recently finished)....Both books, completely different from one another - are the type of stories that stay with me