How Beautiful We Were Middle Grades Bearing the names of two

Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother

By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding

Madagascar

Christine’s brand of “living with less” is more than a decluttering regimen

In this incredible volume

How Beautiful We Were Middle Grades Bearing the names of two*Ships in 7 10 Business Days* So begins Imbolo Mbues powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are madeand ignored. The countrys government,