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eBook Releases • Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

February 11th, 2012 eBook, eBook Releases, eBooks

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Requirements: .MOBI Reader | 1.82 MB
Overview: Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012: Katherine Boo spent three years among the residents of the Annawadi slum, a sprawling, cockeyed settlement of more than 300 tin-roof huts and shacks in the shadow of Mumbai’s International Airport. From within this “sumpy plug of slum,” Boo unearths stories both tragic and poignant–about residents’ efforts to raise families, earn a living, or simply survive. These unforgettable characters all nurture far-fetched dreams of a better life. As one boy tells his brother: “Everything around us is roses. And we’re like the st in between.” A New Yorker writer and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur “Genius” grant, Boo writes superbly, and the depth and courage of her reporting from this hidden world is astonishing. At times, it’s hard to believe this is nonfiction.