Mbue, Imbolo <br/><br/>
How beautiful we were :  a novel 
/ Imbolo Mbue 
 - New York  : Random House  , 2021 
 - 364 p.  ; 24 cm 
<br/><br/> 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, 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780593132425 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Corporations----Fiction<br/>Environmental degradation---Fiction<br/>Oil spills---Fiction<br/>Villages---Fiction---African
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC MBU