A Reversal by Imbolo Mbue
A short piece on the theme of Belonging, read by the author at the 29th Annual PEN Faulkner Celebration in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 2017.
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Behold the Dreamers
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Behold the Covers
Howard M-B Maximus A cover has many faces. As the language a book is written in changes, so does its cover. Behold the Dreamers is no exception. Last month, we celebrated the first anniversary of Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, a page-turner about family struggles, vast longings, and what it means to be an immigrant
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Imbolo Mbue: Cameroon’s literary gem and Africa’s first million-dollar novelist
Who is Imbolo Mbue? What does it mean to write a million-dollar novel? Nkiacha Atemkeng explores these questions and reviews “Emke“, Imbolo Mbue’s first published story. When I first heard that a US-based writer from Cameroon, Imbolo Mbue, had signed a whooping book deal of one million dollars for her manuscript, The Longings of
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Imbolo Mbue's "Million-Dollar" Novel: Behold the Dreamers
Originally published in Scribbles from the Den Dibussi Tande Imbolo Mbue. (March 15, 2016). Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. New York: Random House, 384 pages. Formats: Ebook, Audio, Hardcover. Available on pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It was destined to be a debut novel like no other from the
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