Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, the book tells the story of people living in fear amid environmental degradation caused by an American oil company.
Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula, How Beautiful We Were is what happens when a reckless campaign for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes against a community’s determination. To occupy her ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the freedom of her people,” the book’s blurb reads.
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