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How beautiful we were

"Tells the story of a people living 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...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...Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary"--

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32320004839928 F
Fiction-Adult   Maitland library . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781838851347
1838851348
1838851356
9781838851354
Classification Number F
Author Mbue, Imbolo.
Title How beautiful we were [BK]
Publisher Edinburgh, UK : : Canongate,, 2021.
"Tells the story of a people living 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...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...Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary"--
Subject Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction
Villages -- Africa -- Fiction
Environmental degradation -- Africa -- Fiction
Americans -- Africa -- Fiction
Oil industries -- Environmental aspects -- Fiction
Oil pollution of water -- Fiction
Protest movements -- Africa -- Fiction
Africa
Africa -- Fiction
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