Imbolo Mbue
Born 1981
From United States · Nationality: United States, Cameroon · Writes fiction
Quotes
“It’s so hard to be a stranger in a strange land. I don’t think most people understand how difficult it is to leave behind what you know and come to a country where everything about you is considered “different.””
On being a stranger in “Oprah Talks to Behold the Dreamers Author Imbolo Mbue” i “I did not do it because I wanted to one day have a book deal…I did it because I loved it, and I enjoyed it, and I did not know where it was going to take me. I did it out of love of the art.”
On why she wrote Behold the Dreamers in “Imbolo Mbue on Empathy and the Price of
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Books by Imbolo Mbue in order
Books by Imbolo Mbue in the order they were published, from Behold the Dreamers (2016) to Wie schön wir waren (2021).
