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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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***NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF *TIME* ’S ** TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE *NEW YORK TIMES* ’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “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***

About Author

Katherine (Kate) J. Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. She learned to report at the alternative weekly, Washington City Paper, after whic

Author

Katherine Boo

ISBN

9780812979329

Pages

232

Publication Date

04-07-2014

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

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