How Beautiful We Were

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 →