Imbolo Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Named a notable book of the year by The New York Times and The Washington Post and a best book of the year by close to a dozen publications, the novel has been translated into 11 languages, adapted into an opera and a stage play, and optioned for a movie. A native of Limbe, Cameroon, and a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Universities, Mbue lives in New York City.

Books by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were

by Imbolo Mbue - Fiction

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller BEHOLD THE DREAMERS comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.

Behold the Dreamers

by Imbolo Mbue - Fiction

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race and the trapdoors in the American Dream --- the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.