LIttle Bee by Chris Cleave

This was a captivating read....not an easy read, but a very compelling story.  The lives of two women, very different, are intertwined in a tragic way, and their common experience brings them close together and makes their lives interdepedent.

Little Bee (not her real name) is a Nigerian woman who lost her whole family to acts of terror in her home country.  Sarah is a journalist with a young son, Charlie, and a strained marriage.  She and Andrew, her husband, travel to Nigeria to save their marriage.  Little do they know that what they experience their will change their lives forever.

So much happens in this book; so much that is sad, tragic, and scary.  The women are strong and positive characters, while the men are weak and flawed.  Even her son, Charlie, is maladjusted and difficult.

I don't want to spoil the end, but I was not quite sure exactly what happened at the end. I am not sure if the author intended to be cryptic, or if I just rushed through the end without fully grasping the meaning. I want to discuss with my friends who have read the book.

Have you read it? Do you have an opinion about the ending?