Five days after Little Bee contacted Andrew and told him she was coming, Andrew hanged himself. Ten days later, Andrew’s wife, Sarah, a magazine editor, and four-year-old son Charlie-who wears his Batman costume at all hours and will only respond to “Batman”-are preparing to attend Andrew’s funeral. Little Bee and the three other women go outside to wait for a taxi. She calls Andrew, who seems angry and hostile, and tells him that she is coming to his house because she doesn’t know anyone else in the country, regardless of whether he wants her to or not. However, Little Bee has a driver’s license and business card belonging to Andrew O’Rourke, a white man she met two years before on a beach in Nigeria. In 2007, Little Bee is released from the detention center with three other women, none of whom have their papers or documentation granting them asylum status. Sixteen-year-old Nigerian refugee Little Bee has spent the past two years in an immigration detention center in Essex, England.
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