05781cam a2200841 4500 536358608 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780679643951 0679643958 f1f68eea-c0d3-4aac-a420-c15be18c1210 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 16017 16017 626555 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers [Libby eBook] : Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. Random House Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2761kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. national book award finalists. pulitzer prize winning books. national book award winners. book club recommendations. pulitzer prize winners. history of the world. National Book Award. Cultural Studies. Environmentalism. Indian Politics. political books. sociology books. top biographies. Pulitzer Prize. Asian history. World History. Autobiography. history books. 21st century. anthropology. Journalism. Migrations. corruption. Biography. globalism. politics. Memoirs. Poverty. History. family. bombay. mumbai. memoir. Adult. India. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE “Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People “A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award  ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.  With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.  WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize • The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award • The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Star Tribune • The Week • Kansas City Star • Slate •  Publishers Weekly. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. The New York Times Best Seller List. Notable Books for Adults. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. 10 Best Books of 2012. National Book Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/BehindtheBeautifulForeversLifedeathan9780679643951.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/F1F/68E/EA/BehindtheBeautifulForeversLifedeathan9780679643951.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F1F68EEA-C0D3-4AAC-A420-C15BE18C1210&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXLIV