Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | Mar 16, 2021

Imbolo Mbue reads her story from the March 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Mbue is the author of two novels, “Behold the Dreamers,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and “How Beautiful We Were,” which was published this month.

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