NY: Random House, 2021. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. F/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Imbolo Mbue on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) with a faint crinkle to the spine head front edge (see photos), else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, "How Beautiful We Were" tells the story 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 made — and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come outlets at a steep price.
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Product code: SIGNED, How outlets Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue, Signed First Edition, First Printing