He'd never had to worry about whether his experience would be
appropriate, whether his English would be perfect, whether he would
succeed in coming across as intelligent enough. But today, dressed in
the green double-breasted pinstripe suit he’d worn the day he entered
America, his ability to impress a man he’d never met was all he could
think about. Try as he might, he could do nothing but think about the
questions he might be asked, the answers he would need to give, the
way he would have to walk and talk and sit, the times he would need to
speak or listen and nod, the things he would have to say or not say,
the response he would need to give if asked about his legal status in
the country."
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Immigrant from Cameroon builds a life in the Bronx. Wall Street banker faces ruin in the 2008 collapse. Their lives intersect in a quintessentially American story. Straightforward, simple prose, most authentic in the Cameroonian household.
"Behold the Dreamers" is the 2022 selection for "Richardson Reads One Book".
