num_pages: 400
description: Jende Jonga a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself his wife Neni and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007 Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality discretion and loyaltyand Jende is eager to please. Clarks wife Cindy even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers faades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers the Jongas are desperate to keep Jendes jobeven as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
language: English
title: Behold the Dreamers
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks