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01834aim a2200409 4500 001 CC4FDB20C81E11EBA265461429ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210608010014 008 210219s2020|||||||||n||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0593209958 020 $a 9780593209950 028 4 $a 12468834 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Mbue, Imbolo. 245 1 $a How beautiful we were $h [audiobook] / $c Imbolo Mbue. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Penguin Random House Audio, $c 2020. 300 $a 12 sound discs (14 hrs.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 1 $a Read by Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Renee Lisa Pitts. 520 $a In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. 538 $a Compact disc. 541 $d 20210325. 650 $a Audio cds. 650 $a Oil spills $v Fiction. 650 $a Environmental degradation $v Fiction. 650 $a Villages $z Africa $v Fiction. 650 $a Corporations $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. 700 $a Onayemi, Prentice. 700 $a Edwards, Janina. 700 $a Graham, Dion. 700 $a Jackson, JD. 700 $a Pitts, Renee Lisa. 941 $a 1 945 $a cda 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20210608010226.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC4FDB20C81E11EBA265461429ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search