The book jacket and synopses for Little Bee are intentionally vague and when trying to get into the beginning of the book it felt like it was all kind of a gimmick. To the point where I skipped ahead and read bits of the end chapters. It's not a new trope to continually hint at some horrific or extraordinary event throughout a novel, but I think I got frustrated with this one because I found the book really hard to get into. Especially at the beginning with Yvette's dialect-y speaking, written out, it really slowed down my reading. It felt like I'd read a sentence of dialogue and I wouldn't register the meaning for a while. The book does pick up around page 120 or so, and then I did find it harder to put down. So I guess overall the book is all right, but not something I'd usually pick up on my own.