How Beautiful We Were

By: Imbolo Mbue

"we 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 the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an american oil company. pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. children are dying from drinking toxic water. promises of clean-up and...