How Beautiful We Were : A Novel

"Tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water...The country's government,led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation...Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary"--