Behind the beautiful forevers, life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity, Katherine Boo
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Behind the beautiful forevers, life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity, Katherine Boo
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Behind the beautiful forevers
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Katherine Boo
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life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
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Annawadi is a settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are filled with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees ₃a fortune beyond counting₄ in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal
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