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Mbue, Imbolo

2 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating 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 a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MBU

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MBU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MBU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MBU

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mbue 2020

Mbue, Imbolo

Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating 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 a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MBU

Mbue, Imbolo

Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful 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 made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBU

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