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May 15, 2001 · 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.
May 2, 2000 · 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.
Aug 13, 2002 · In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann, an otherwise indifferent student, takes first prize in her school spelling bee, it is as if rays of light have begun to emanate from her head.
- Myla Goldberg
Bee Season is a 2000 novel by Myla Goldberg. It follows a young girl as she attempts to win the national spelling bee, and the repercussions of her success on the other members of her family.
May 2, 2000 · You'll have to read Bee Season for yourself. Author Myla Goldberg writes brilliantly. Somehow she brings together family dynamics, the trials of adolescence, Jewish mysticism and spelling in an unlikely but intoxicating brew.
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.
May 15, 2001 · Myla Goldberg tackles all that and more in a seamless, compelling narrative in Bee Season. Not bees as in honey, but bees as in S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G. The kind you either dreaded or loved as a child. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann finds out she has an unusual talent for spelling, she is utterly confounded.
The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer. At precisely 11 a.m. every teacher in every classroom at McKinley Elementary School tells their students to stand.
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.
Bee Season. Myla Goldberg. Harper Perennial, 2005 - Fiction - 275 pages. "At eleven years old, Eliza Naumann is shaping up to be unremarkable, the one overlooked member of her gifted...
