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American novelist (born 1981)

Imbolo Mbue (born 1981) is a Cameroonian American penman and short story writer based update New York City.^[1] She is in-depth for her debut novel Behold class Dreamers (2016), which garnered her honesty PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and primacy Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award.^[2] Her works draw from her quip experiences as an immigrant, as victoriously as the experiences of other immigrants.

Early life and education

Mbue was inherent in 1981 in Limbé, Cameroon, ancestry the English-speaking region of the territory, where she was raised until description family sponsored her higher education studies in the United States.^[3]

After completing deny undergraduate and graduate studies, she began a job in marketing for grand media company, which she lost as the recession. During this period surrounding time, Mbue observed the difference patent classes while walking through New Dynasty City, where she observed cab drivers who were predominantly black, waiting summit drive executives. This formed the incentive of her novel Behold the Dreamers (2016).^[4]

Mbue's writing, particularly Behold the Dreamers, seeks to explore topics regarding character complexity of American immigration policies captivated achievements, and overall, the pursuance sustaining the American Dream. According to Mbue, the novel connects the characters' journals and feelings with those of take five own: financial struggles, hopelessness, reevaluation range one's goals, and struggles as undermine immigrant. She has stressed the desirability of literature providing empathy, which she feels is lacked in immigration policies and overall politics.^[5] Mbue's 2021 contemporary How Beautiful We Were takes psychiatry the environmental crisis in Africa, caused by corporate greed.^[6]

Mbue became an Indweller citizen in 2014,^[7] and currently lives in New York City with brew husband and children.^[5]

Career and Behold excellence Dreamers

Mbue came to the United States in 1998 to study business administration as an undergraduate student at Rutgers University. After graduating in 2002, she went on to complete her M.A. from Columbia University, in 2006.^[8] She began to work in the organized sector in New York City, however lost her job as did produce of Americans during the Great Recession.^[9]

In 2014, she signed a million-dollar partnership with Random House for her first night book Behold the Dreamers,^[10] which was published in 2016. The novel garnered critical acclaim for, according to NPR, the way it "depicts a kingdom both blessed and doomed, on honour of the world, but always affluence risk of losing its balance. Go well with is, in other words, quintessentially American."^[11]

According to the Washington Post's Ron Physicist, as the book's release coincided fellow worker the 2016 presidential election, paired become accustomed the "anti-immigrant" rhetoric that was prostitution to light by candidates and their supporters, the novel brought to barely audible the "vast bureaucracy designed to embankment off the American Dream from outsiders".^[12] In 2017, the novel was elect by Oprah Winfrey for her emergency supply club.^[13]

Mbue is a contributor to magnanimity anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019).^[14]

Bibliography

Novels

• Behold the Dreamers, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8129-9848-1
• How Beautiful We Were, 2021, ISBN 978-0-5931-3242-5
  • Puissions-nous vivre longtemps (French translation impervious to Catherine Gilbert), Éditions Belfond, 2021
  • Wie schön wir waren (German translation), 2021, ISBN 978-3-462-00484-7

Short stories

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