How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue
Category: Contemporary
Tags: Contemporary, Literature, Adults
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an America oil company., We should have known the end was near., So begins Imbolo Mbues powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it 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 to the villagers are madeand ignored. The countrys government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle would last for decades and come at a steep price., Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How
