"Bee Season", while lovely, has nothing to do with how people really prepare for spelling bees.

"Bee Season" had one of the most disturbing point-of-view switches I've ever read.

Bee Season depicts the emotional disintegration of a family just as their daughter begins to win national spelling bees.

"Bee Season" has something else going for it, something you didn't realize you'd been missing in recent fiction: a bit of actual suspense.

"Bee Season" is so smart, and frequently so charming, that you wait for Goldberg to begin making mistakes.

For a novel that's partly about transcendence, however, "Bee Season" keeps its feet planted in the earth.

"Bee Season" flickers past like a dream, and it is artful indeed.

It makes a handful of allusions to Bee Season.

Minghella got the part after meeting Zwigoff when he visited the set of Bee Season.

Bee Season was well received by critics.