{"product_id":"behold-the-dreamers-a-novel","title":"Behold the Dreamers: A Novel (RARE BOOKS)","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a New life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller • Winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN\/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNPR •\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e• Chicago Public Library •\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJende 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHowever, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraise for\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBehold the Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A capacious, big-hearted novel.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Behold the Dreamers’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(book of the week)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This story is one that needs to be told.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBust \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBehold the\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDreamers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . 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