How the Other Half Lives
1890 · 228 pages
Riis went into New York's tenements at night with a camera and flash powder, and brought back the room where twelve people slept. Roosevelt sought him out, and the worst blocks came down.
★ 5.4
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2012 · 288 pages
Boo spent three years in Annawadi, a slum beside the Mumbai airport, following a teenage garbage trader, a woman scheming her way to power, and the neighbor whose self-immolation puts them on trial.
★ 6.7