Behold the dreamers
(2017, original release: 2016)
By:
Mbue, Imbolo
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/MBUE,I
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company ; [2017]
©2016
©2016
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION
603 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781410494412 (hardcover), 1410494411 (hardcover), 9781432845391, 143284539X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Their situation only improves when Jende's son Neni is hired as household help. But in the course of their work, Jende and Neni begin to witness infidelities, skirmishes, and family secrets. Then, with the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, a tragedy changes all four lives forever, and the Jongas must decide whether to continue fighting to stay in a recession-ravaged America or give up and return home to Cameroon