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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

By Katherine Boo
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Unabridged — 8 hours, 17 minutes
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By Katherine Boo
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
Unabridged — 8 hours, 17 minutes
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“A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking.”—Junot Díaz, The New York Times Book Review
 
In this brilliant, 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 resident…

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