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Following her 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating 2nd novel starts in 1980 from the fictional African village of Kosawa, where representatives from an American oil firm have come to meet up with With all the locals, whose children are dying due to environmental havoc (fallow fields, poisoned water) wreak