September: Book Club Pick & Studio Visit with Imbolo Mbue

Join us for Studio Visits

A monthly conversation series about the creative process, hosted by Suleika Jaouad. Learn from extraordinary artists as they share stories, failures, wisdom and instruction.

For our upcoming Studio Visit, Suleika will be hosting a virtual conversation with the brilliant novelist Imbolo Mbue on Sunday, September 12 from 12-1 pm ET.*

*Please note: This is an hour earlier than normal!

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. The novel has been translated into eleven languages, adapted into an opera and a stage play, and optioned for a miniseries.

Her new novel, How Beautiful We Were, is about what happened when a fictional African village decided to fight against an American oil company that had been polluting its land for many years. A native of Limbe, Cameroon, and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Universities, Mbue lives in New York.

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This September, we’ve chosen Imbolo Mbue’s critically acclaimed How Beautiful We Were for our book club. I just got my copy and was gripped from the very first page. Grab yours from our Bookshop!

“Imbolo Mbue has given us a novel with the richness and power of a great contemporary fable, and a heroine for our time.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend, winner of the National Book Award

“A David and Goliath story, a riveting tale of how people coming together to make change can topple even the fiercest, best-financed foe.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

“Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR

“What a stunningly beautiful writer Mbue is, and how lucky we are to have her stories in the world.”—USA Today

“Superb.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette