Please register through the library's website: https://berlinpeck.org/events/2025-10-senior-center-book-club/
Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue. Contact the library for a copy of the book.
About the Book
An immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession.
At the intersection of “Americanah” and “The Help” comes a riveting debut novel about two marriages – one immigrant and working class, the other from the top 1% – both chasing their version of the American Dream. 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.
