4 Quotes & Sayings By Imbolo Mbue

In 2009, Mbue was awarded The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, for her novel 'The Book of Night Women'. The novel won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 2012, and was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2013. Her second novel is 'Beautifulappa's Daughter' (2014) Read more

She was born in Cameroon and emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of three. After graduating from the University of Manitoba with a degree in English literature, Ms. Mbue taught English at Columbia College of New York.

She is now based in Toronto, working as an academic, writer, and literary editor.

It's the fear that kills us, Leah,
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It's the fear that kills us, Leah, " Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear. Imbolo Mbue
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And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing. Imbolo Mbue
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Its regurgitation in newspapers of record and blogs of repute would be another reminder why the American society as a whole could never be call itself highbrow, why its easy availability of of stories on the private lives of others was turning adults, who would otherwise be enriching their minds with worthwhile knowledge, into juveniles who needed the satisfaction of knowing that others were more pathetic than them. Imbolo Mbue