Behold the Dreamers Condition:Like New shading gardens

shading gardens

The Who Was

readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is

Born 1982 follows the life of a girl born to a mother whose in-laws want a boy

a young man named Tomas discovers an old journal

Behold the Dreamers Condition:Like New shading gardensA compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dreamthe unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six year old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly