Little Bee

I just finished Little Bee by Chris Cleave, the sad story of a young girl from Nigeria who has witnessed unthinkable horrors. She meets a British couple on vacation, Andrew and Sarah, on a beach in her home country. Something happens on that beach, something that you do not find out until the middle of the book. Somehow, Little Bee is eventually able to escape to England. She is placed in an Immigration Detention Center for two years, at which time she is let out by an administrative mistake. She finds her way to the home of Andrew and Sarah to find out that Andrew has killed himself because of what happened on the beach, and she has shown up on the morning of the funeral. Although Sarah is at first shocked to see her, she befriends her and they work out what happened on the beach. Little Bee looks after Sarah's son, a boy named charlie who refuses to answer to anything but Batman. Little Bee and Sarah must both struggle to adjust to a whole new way of life.