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Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity] / Katherine Boo.

by Boo, Katherine.

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Thorndike Press, 2012.

LP 305.56 B724b

Urban poor -- India -- Bombay.

National Book Awards.

Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions.

9781410446763 (hbk.)

141044676X (hbk.)

Large print ed.

421 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Prologue: between roses -- Undercitizens. Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning. Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- The come-apart -- The master -- A little wildness. Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out. Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field.

Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.

Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2012.

Creative nonfiction.

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