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HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE - IMBOLO MBUE KARTONIERT ...

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil
company in this sweeping  inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold
the Dreamers .    ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times  People • ONE OF
THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review  The Washington Post  Esquire  Good
Housekeeping  The Christian Science Monitor  Marie Claire   Ms. magazine  BookPage  Kirkus
Reviews   “Mbue reaches for the moon and  by the novel’s end  has it firmly held in her
hand.”—NPR    We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second
novel  How Beautiful We Were . Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa  it tells of a
people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company.
Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic
water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The
country’s government  led by a brazen dictator  exists to serve its own interests. Left with
few choices  the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades
and come at a steep price.   Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the
family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary  How Beautiful We Were is a
masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit  coupled with the
ghost of colonialism  comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its
ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her
people’s freedom.

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