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Stan Getz Library PS3613.B84 B44 2017 37684001097965 Leisure Reading Collection Copy hold / Volume hold Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525509714
  • ISBN: 0525509712
  • ISBN: 9780525510116
  • ISBN: 0525510117
  • Physical Description: 397 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Inc, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Oprah's book club, 2017 selection."-- Cover.
Includes readers guide (pages 389-397).
Summary, etc.:
In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian ... Read More
Awards Note:
Pen/Faulkner Award, 2017.
Subject: Cameroonians > United States > Fiction.
Immigrants > United States > Fiction.
Upper class > United States > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
"Oprah's book club, 2017 selection."-- Cover.
Includes readers guide (pages 389-397).
In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Their situation only improves when Jende's wife Neni is hired as household help. But in the course of their work, Jende and Neni begin to witness infidelities, skirmishes, and family secrets. Then, with the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, a tragedy changes all four lives forever, and the Jongas must decide whether to continue fighting to stay in a recession-ravaged America or give up and return home to Cameroon.
Pen/Faulkner Award, 2017.

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