? UNDER THE LAMPLIGHT-

Find hope in an unbearable place in Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hopein a Mumbai Undercity by Pulitzer Prizewinner Katherine Boo. This work of creative nonfiction places the reader somewhere they would turn their eye away from, a Mumbai slum with sounds, smells and scenes they would rather forget existed. Here, several people and their families’ lives intersect, conflict, and resolve as they seek a way out from their difficult lives spent navigating religious conflict and global recession. Abdul, a garbage collector, seeks to make his fortune as he forages through his mountain heaps of rich people’s refuse. Asha is looking forward to her daughter graduating from college and hopefully graduating them out of the slum, despite the pressure to marry her daughter. Boo’s years of journalism in India makes the characters and their narratives familiar and sympathy with their plight impossible to resist. Find the book on Amazon today.

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