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How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
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.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post ? Esquire ? Marie Claire ? Kirkus ReviewsWe 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