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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
August 23, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Wednesday, August 24th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of BEHOLD THE DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue, which is now available and is a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: BEHOLD THE DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue
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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race and the trapdoors in the American Dream, BEHOLD THE DREAMERS is the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion and loyalty --- and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.
However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades.
When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job --- even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read Carol Fitzgerald's "Bookreporter.com Bets On" commentary on the book.
-Click here to visit Imbolo Mbue's official website.
-Click here to connect with Imbolo Mbue on Facebook.
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Click here to enter the contest by Wednesday, August 24th at 11:59am ET. |
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