Imbolo Mbue on Writing Her Second Novel

The Book Review

The New York Times

Arts, Books

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Mbue talks about “How Beautiful We Were,” and Annalee Newitz discusses “Four Lost Cities.”

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0:00.0	What happens when an American oil company descends upon a small African village, and
0:11.3	bottom of the way will be here to discuss her second novel, How Beautiful We Were.
0:17.1	How and why do civilizations disappear?
0:20.2	Annoly Nuits will join us to discuss four lost cities, a secret history of the urban age.
0:28.3	Alexander Altair will have an update from the publishing world.
0:33.3	Plus, our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.
0:37.0	This is the Book Review podcast for The New York Times.
0:39.7	It's March 12th.
0:40.9	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:44.6	Joining us now from the Hudson Valley is in Voila Mabue.
0:48.0	Her new book is called How Beautiful We Were and It's Reviewed on the Cover of the Book
0:52.2	Review in Voila.
0:53.2	Thanks so much for being here.
0:54.5	Thank you so much for having me, Pamela.
0:57.0	All right, for those who have not read this book and it's just out, so we forgive them.
1:00.7	Just set the scene a little bit for us.
1:02.8	What is the book about?
1:04.1	This is a story about what happened when a small African village named Kusawa, it's a fictional
1:09.7	village.
1:10.7	The residents that decide to fight against an American oil company that has been polluting
1:15.9	their land for many years.
1:17.7	By the time the story starts, the oil company has been there for at least two decades.
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