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HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE - IMBOLO MBUE KARTONIERT ...

'Sweeping and quietly devastating' New York Times 'A David and Goliath story for our times' O 
the Oprah Magazine Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa  How Beautiful We Were tells
the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American
oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from
drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations are made - and ignored.
The country's government  led by a brazen dictator  exists to serve its own interest only. Left
with few choices  the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. But their fight will come at a
steep price . . . one which generation after generation will have to pay. Told through the
perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula  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 onto its
ancestral land and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her
people's freedom.

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