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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

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display_descriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
  • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
  • NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
    "Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care."—People
    NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times
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    In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.
    As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi's "most-everything girl," might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.
    With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
    WINNER OF: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
  • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize
  • The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
  • The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker
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    subject_facetBombay (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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