TY  - SOUND
AU  - Mbue,Imbolo
AU  - Onayemi,Prentice
AU  - Edwards,Janina
AU  - Graham,Dion
AU  - Jackson,JD
AU  - Johnson,Allyson
AU  - Pitts,Renee Lisa
TI  - How beautiful we were: a novel 
SN  - 9780593209950
AV  - PS3613.B84 H69 2021ab
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Random House Audio
KW  - Villages
KW  - Africa
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Oil spills
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Corporations
KW  - fast
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Title from web page; Compact discs; Read by Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson and Lisa Renee Pitts
N2  - In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price
ER  -