Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
(Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read)

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(4)
4 star
 
(4)
3 star
 
(2)
2 star
 
(1)
1 star
 
(0)
Lexile measure:
1030L
Status:
Available from OverDrive
Also in This Series
More Details
Published:
Random House Publishing Group 2012
Format:
Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read
Street Date:
02/07/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679643951
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 7.8, 14 Points
Lexile measure:
1030
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Copy Details
LibraryOwnedAvailable
Shared Digital Collection64
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

Katherine Boo. (2012). Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Katherine Boo. 2012. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Random House Publishing Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Random House Publishing Group, 2012.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Katherine Boo. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Random House Publishing Group, 2012.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
Staff View
Grouped Work ID:
e9d7d4d8-90b8-a21b-a9d0-11179b1b65e8
Go To Grouped Work
Needs Update?:
No
Date Added:
Apr 23, 2014 15:38:02
Date Updated:
Dec 06, 2020 23:23:50
Last Metadata Check:
Mar 25, 2024 18:35:16
Last Metadata Change:
Mar 24, 2024 05:53:02
Last Availability Check:
Mar 25, 2024 18:35:17
Last Availability Change:
Mar 25, 2024 18:35:17
Last Grouped Work Modification Time:
Mar 29, 2024 03:09:02

OverDrive Product Record

images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
formats
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679643951
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 16017
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679643951
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 16017
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • id: ebook-overdrive
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 081297932X
mediaType
eBook
primaryCreator
    • role: Author
    • name: Katherine Boo
title
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
dateAdded
2012-02-06T15:48:08.233-05:00
contentDetails
      • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=426&titleID=626555
      • type: text/html
      • account:
          • name: Wake County Public Libraries (NC)
          • id: 1893
sortTitle
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
crossRefId
626555
subtitle
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
id
f1f68eea-c0d3-4aac-a420-c15be18c1210
starRating
4

OverDrive MetaData

interestLevel
UG
isPublicDomain
False
formats
      • fileName: BehindtheBeautifulFo_9780679643951_626555
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 2827309
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679643951
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 16017
      • rights:
            • type: Copying
            • value: 0
            • type: Printing
            • value: 0
            • type: Lending
            • value: 0
            • type: ReadAloud
            • value: 0
            • type: ExpirationRights
            • value: 0
      • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-epub-adobe
      • onSaleDate: 2/7/2012
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/BehindtheBeautifulForeversLifedeathan9780679643951.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
      • fileName: BehindtheBeautifulFo_9780679643951_626555
      • partCount: 0
      • fileSize: 0
      • identifiers:
            • type: ISBN
            • value: 9780679643951
            • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
            • value: 16017
      • name: OverDrive Read
      • isReadAlong: False
      • id: ebook-overdrive
      • onSaleDate: 2/7/2012
      • samples:
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
            • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/BehindtheBeautifulForeversLifedeathan9780679643951.epub
            • source: From the book
            • formatType: ebook-overdrive
            • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
keywords
      • value: family
      • value: Cultural Studies
      • value: 21st century
      • value: politics
      • value: Biography
      • value: bombay
      • value: Asian history
      • value: anthropology
      • value: globalism
      • value: Environmentalism
      • value: mumbai
      • value: Slums
      • value: Journalism
      • value: Migrations
      • value: World History
      • value: Memoirs
      • value: Indian Politics
      • value: Pulitzer Prize
      • value: Poverty
      • value: History
      • value: corruption
      • value: India
      • value: memoir
      • value: National Book Award
      • value: book club recommendations
      • value: history books
      • value: political books
      • value: pulitzer prize winning books
      • value: pulitzer prize winners
      • value: history of the world
      • value: gifts for men
      • value: national book award winners
      • value: gifts for women
      • value: national book award finalists
      • value: sociology books
creators
      • role: Author
      • fileAs: Boo, Katherine
      • bioText: Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. This is her first book.
      • name: Katherine Boo
imprint
Random House
publishDate
2012-02-07T00:00:00-05:00
isOwnedByCollections
True
title
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
fullDescription
NEW 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

A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
In this 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 Nonfiction 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 • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Star Tribune • The Week • Kansas City Star • Slate •  Publishers Weekly
gradeLevels
      • value: Grade 6
      • value: Grade 7
      • value: Grade 8
popularity
4157
links
    • self:
        • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/L1BLQAAAA2a/products/f1f68eea-c0d3-4aac-a420-c15be18c1210/metadata
        • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
id
f1f68eea-c0d3-4aac-a420-c15be18c1210
starRating
4
images
    • cover:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img100.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • thumbnail:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img200.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover150Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img150.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
    • cover300Wide:
        • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/{F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210}Img400.jpg
        • type: image/jpeg
isPublicPerformanceAllowed
False
languages
      • code: en
      • name: English
subjects
      • value: History
      • value: Sociology
      • value: Nonfiction
publishDateText
02/07/2012
otherFormatIdentifiers
      • type: ISBN
      • value: 9781400067558
mediaType
eBook
shortDescription
NEW 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

A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
In this 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...
sortTitle
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
lexileScore
1030
crossRefId
626555
awards
      • source: National Book Foundation
      • value: National Book Award
      • source: The National Book Critics Circle
      • value: National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
      • source: Columbia University
      • value: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
      • source: Notable Books Council
      • value: Notable Books for Adults
      • source: The New York Times
      • value: The New York Times Best Seller List
      • source: The New York Times
      • value: 10 Best Books of 2012
subtitle
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
publisher
Random House Publishing Group
atos
7.8
bisacCodes
      • code: HIS017000
      • description: History / Asia / South / General
      • code: SOC042000
      • description: Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
      • code: SOC045000
      • description: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Formats
Adobe EPUB eBook
Works on all eReaders (except Kindles), desktop computers and mobile devices with reading apps installed.
OverDrive Read
Need Help?
If you are having problem using our eCollection, please visit our support center.