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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

by Katherine Boo

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2012
Pages
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Abdul supports his family by sorting and selling discarded materials in a settlement near Mumbai's international airport. After a woman is badly burned, police attention falls on him and his father. Katherine Boo's nonfiction account begins amid this crisis, tracing the pressures of poverty, neighborhood resentment and economic inequality through the lives surrounding Abdul.

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Katherine Boo

Katherine J. "Kate" Boo is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has received the MacArthur Fellowship (2002), the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), and her work earned the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Washington Post.

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First published
2012
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
239
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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