Following her 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Mbue’s sweeping and quietly devastating next novel starts in 1980 inside the fictional African village of Kosawa, exactly where representatives from an American oil company have come to meet with the locals, whose children are dying because of the environmental havoc (fallow fields, https://miloyicco.shotblogs.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-book-genres-40853332