Come hear IMBOLO MBUE talk about the books that helped shape her as a writer. In her beguiling debut novel, Behold the Dreamers, winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award, she tells the story of a young Cameroonian couple starting a new life in New York just as the Great Recession arrives. She writes with wit and tenderness not only about these struggling immigrants, but also about the family of the Lehman Brothers executive who hires them, in a book The New York Times called “savage and compassionate in all the right places.” Mbue says that empathy is at the base of her drive to be a writer, a quality she learned from the books of Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, Andrew Solomon and others. She will talk about their work, and her own, in a conversation with JEFFREY BROWN of the PBS NewsHour.

Read more about Imbolo Mbue here.