Foreign Body

Bee, a resilient young woman with an infectious narrative voice, travels from her Caribbean home to Brooklyn, in search of safety, employment, and a truly rewarding partnership

IN FOREIGN BODY, BEE TELLS HER STORY IN THE LILTING VERNACULAR voice of a young Black West Indian woman—wise, humorous, resourceful, and resilient. She is the victim of multiple assaults in her brutally patriarchal village, with the sole support of a stalwart grandmother. In spite of this, Bee becomes a record-winning...