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Adhering to her 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating next novel starts in 1980 in the fictional African village of Kosawa, the place representatives from an American oil corporation have arrive at meet with the locals, whose children are dying due to environmental havoc (fallow fields, poisoned drinking w