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‘Behold the Dreamers,’ by Imbolo Mbue

Imagine Lorraine Hansberry’s play/film “A Raisin in the Sun” with a Cameroonian cast of characters in early 21st century New York City, and you may come up with something close to “Behold the Dreamers,” a poignant and bittersweet debut novel by Imbolo Mbue. The author plunges her protagonists, married couple Jendi and Neni Jonga (like Mbue, natives of Limbe, Cameroon, who now live in the Big Apple), into the maelstrom of the 2008 economic crisis. Initially, their shared reverence for both America and their employers (Jende works as a chauffeur for Lehman Bros.

 

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