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020			_a9780593132449 _qpaperback _cRM 52.95
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082	0	4	_a813.6 _223
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100	1		_aMbue, Imbolo, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE : _bA NOVEL / _cImbolo Mbue.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2022
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a364pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"'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 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 serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young 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 ghosts 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." -- _cProvided by publisher
650	1	0	_aVillages _zAfrica _vFiction
650		0	_aOil spills _vFiction
650		0	_aEnvironmental degradation _vFiction
650		0	_aCorporations _vFiction
651		0	_aAfrica _vFiction
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