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 .
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..
Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price.
Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back.
The country\'s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests.
Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored.
Children are dying from drinking toxic water.
Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile.
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.
So begins Imbolo Mbue\'s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were .
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire , 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.
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
