Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2017 | Winner |
About This Book
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant, secures a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a Lehman Brothers executive, in 2007 New York. As the financial crisis unfolds, the lives of both families—the wealthy and precarious Edwards family, and the even more precarious Jonga family—begin to unravel. An Oprah's Book Club selection and PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
About the Author
Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian-American novelist born in Limbe, Cameroon, in 1982. She moved to the United States in 1998 to study at Rutgers University and later received an MBA from Columbia University. Her debut novel Behold the Dreamers (2016) tells the story of a Cameroonian immigrant family in New York City during the 2008 financial crisis, navigating their relationship with a family of Wall Street bankers. Read more →
