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

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

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NEW YORK Moments BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Champion • NAMED AMONG TIME’S TEN Ideal NONFICTION BOOKS FROM THE DECADE

“Inspiring . amazing . . . [Katherine Boo] displays us how people in one of the most desperate circumstances will get the resilience to hold to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us treatment.”-People

“A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”-Judges, Pencil/John Kenneth Galbraith Honor

ONE OF THE TEN Preferred BOOKS FROM THE about Behind the stunning Forevers: Life, death, and hope inside a Mumbai undercity YEAR BY The New York Occasions • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Publication • USA Today • NY • The Miami Herald • SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Chronicle • Newsday

In this breathtaking publication by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is manufactured human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the darkness of extravagance hotels close to the Mumbai airport.

As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electrical with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teen, sees “a lot of money beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a female of formidable ambition, offers identified a shadier path to the middle course. With a little good fortune, her beautiful girl, Annawadi’s “most-everything female,” might become its first female college graduate. As well as the poorest kids, like the youthful thief Kalu, experience themselves inching closer to their dreams. But Abdul can be falsely accused in a surprising tragedy; terror and global tough economy rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and financial envy switch brutal.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects visitors to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the stunning Forevers, predicated on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds-and in to the hearts of families impossible to forget.

Champion OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize • The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award • THE BRAND NEW York Open public Library’s Helen Bernstein Publication Award

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY THE BRAND NEW Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall structure Road Journal • The Boston World • The Economist • Financial Situations • Foreign Plan • The Seattle Moments • THE COUNTRY • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Celebrity Tribune • The Week • Kansas Town Celebrity • Slate • Publishers Weekly

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