Imbolo Mbue
1 workpublishing since 2026
Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian-American novelist, born in 1982 in Limbe, Cameroon, and based in New York. Her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers (2016), about a Cameroonian immigrant family in Manhattan during the 2008 financial crisis, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was an Oprah's Book Club pick. Her second, How Beautiful We Were (2021), follows an African village's struggle against an American oil company.
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Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian-American novelist, born in 1982 in Limbe, Cameroon, and based in New York. Her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers (2016), about a Cameroonian immigrant family in Manhattan during the 2008 financial crisis, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was an Oprah's Book Club pick. Her second, How Beautiful We Were (2021), follows an African village's struggle against an American oil company.
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1 work · 20262026
- ReleasedOct 6Every Story Is a Love StoryHardcover