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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dreamthe unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economyWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award ANew York TimesNotable Book Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award An ALA Notable BookNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The New York Times Book Review San Francisco Chronicle The Guardian St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Public Library BookPage Refinery29 Kirkus ReviewsJende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyaltyand Jende is eager to please. Clarks wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers faades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jendes jobeven as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.Praise for Behold the DreamersA debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.The Washington Post A capacious, big-hearted novel.The New York Times Book ReviewBehold the Dreamersheart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.Entertainment Weekly Mbues writing is warm and captivating.People (book of the week) [Mbues] book isnt the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 20072008, but its surely one of the best. . . . Its a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.NPR This story is one that needs to be told.Bust Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.O: The Oprah Magazine[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.The Boston Globe A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.Minneapolis Star Tribune Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Book Club Discussion 1 Immigration plays a huge role in this novel For the Jongas America is a place of hope and promise a place where you can become somebody but the machine 26 Best Books by Black Authors" - The Root Looking for a great book? Looking for a great gift? Here are 26 of the best books by black authors published in 2016 They are realistic stories science fiction and Jacqueline Woodsons Adult Novel Captures 1970s Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson Credit Juna F Nagle ANOTHER BROOKLYN By Jacqueline Woodson 175 pp Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers $2299 This is memory is Book Review: 'Behold The Dreamers' By Imbolo Mbue : NPR close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Behold the Dreamers Author Imbolo Mbue Your purchase helps support NPR programming How? Amazon; Independent Booksellers We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us PBS NewsHour full episode April 14 2017 PBS NewsHour allows open commenting for all registered users and encourages discussion amongst you our audience However if a commenter violates our terms of use Middlemarch by George Eliot Reviews Discussion Take this for granted Middlemarch will haunt your every waking hour for the duration you spend within its fictional provincial boundaries At extremely odd moments PBS NewsHour full episode April 13 2017 PBS NewsHour allows open commenting for all registered users and encourages discussion amongst you our audience However if a commenter violates our terms of use Free Christian Music Downloads - FreeChristMusic Get all your free Christian music downloads right here So why did I create a website focusing on free Christian music downloads? Since becoming a Christian I have Award for Fiction PEN / Faulkner Foundation Congratulations to Imbolo Mbue winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her novel Behold the Dreamers (Penguin Random House) and congratulations
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