JUNE BOX THEME: REVIEW & REFLECTION (R&R)

This month our book box features all non-fiction books. With half the year gone, it’s  time to pause, review and reflect what you’ve achieved since setting your resolutions and doing goal setting in January. In our June box, we’ve put together a package to help you pause, take stock, evaluate and re-strategize. 

BOOK OF THE MONTH

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

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Synopsis:

'We should have known the end was near' 

So begins Imbolo Mbue's powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of a cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are mad - and ignored. The country's government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price.   

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