Beka Lamb is Belizean writer Zee Edgell's debut novel published in 1982. People who read this story will read it again and again over the decades. This story's main character is also the name of book "Beka Lamb". This story covers only a few months in Beka's life with loving and beautiful imagry, while highlighting the overwhelming presence of the Catholic Church, Matriarchal Society, Poverty,
. and the Political Strife on her, her parents Lilla and Bill Lamb, her grandmother MIss ivy, and her brothers Zandy and Chuku,and their culture and neighborhood and its affect on them all. Beka is a young teen at the beginning of the story and struggling to complete her first form at St. Cececilia's Academy. She only one of two girls from her entire neighbood who actually attends school. The other is her best friend Toycie Qualowho who's life ends in pregnancy, miscarriage and death in a storm. Beka's inteligence and humor get her into scrapes, beatings, and more... And yet even with all this, Beka's spirit is not crushed. Beka Lamb was included as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series.
