Books
by Katherine Boo
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity |
Katherine Boo is a journalist who had written about poverty in the US and wanted to do the same in India - her husband is Indian. She spent three years in a Mumbai slum getting to know the residents - their choices, desires and frustrations. She documents the corruption in government, schools and charities, at the same time showing how some people try to get round such obstacles to their advancement. She does not ask for the reader's pity.
(Christine Miller - bwl 68 Spring 2013) |
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