Imbolo Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Her second novel, HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE, about a fictional African village’s fight against an American oil company, was named by the New York Times as “One of the 10 Best Books” of 2021. Her third and latest novel is EVERY STORY IS A LOVE STORY. A native of Limbe, Cameroon, Mbue lives in New York.

Books by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were

by Imbolo Mbue - Fiction

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller BEHOLD THE DREAMERS comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.

Behold the Dreamers

by Imbolo Mbue - Fiction

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race and the trapdoors in the American Dream --- the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.