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The Book Show #1478 - Imbolo Mbue

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published November 15, 2016 at 3:00 PM EST
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Imbolo Mbue’s debut novel is Behold the Dreamers. It chronicles a young Cameroonian couple making a new live in New York just as the great recession of the 2000s upends the economy. The novel explores marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trap-doors in the American Dream. 

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