On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with writer Imbolo Mbue. Her new novel, How Beautiful We Were, is about a fictional African village that tries to fight back against an American Oil company that has polluted the land. Her first novel, Behold the Dreamers, was a New York Times bestseller and won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.  Join us.

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(Photo: How Beautiful We Were, by Imbolo Mbue – Book cover)