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

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

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

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Within this breathtaking reserve 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 an improved life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the darkness of luxury 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 woman of formidable ambition, offers recognized a shadier path to the middle class. With just a little good fortune, her beautiful child, Annawadi’s “most-everything woman,” might become its first woman college graduate. As well as the poorest kids, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But Abdul is normally falsely accused within a shocking tragedy; terror and global tough economy rock the town; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy convert brutal.

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

WINNER OF: The Pencil Nonfiction Award • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize • The American Academy of Arts and Characters Award • The New York Open public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award

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