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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo
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.

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