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Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

The novel takes place a decade ago, but this story of an immigrant family with a tenuous hold on a future in America seems especially timely today. Two couples—Cameroonian immigrants Jende and Neni Jonga and Lehman Brothers executive Clark Edwards and his wife Cindy—are striving for very different versions of the American dream. Their lives become intertwined when Clark hires Jende as his chauffeur. The collapse of Lehman Brothers dramatically changes all their lives. Mbue has created characters that are believable and—sometimes surprisingly—sympathetic.

Margo, Breakwater Books, Guilford