{"product_id":"9781400067558","title":"Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 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, \u003ci\u003eBehind the Beautiful Forevers, \u003c\/i\u003ebased on years of uncompromising reporting,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecarries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award | The PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\/The Daily Beast\u003ci\u003e • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • \u003c\/i\u003eMinneapolis\u003ci\u003e Star Tribune • \u003c\/i\u003eSalon\u003ci\u003e • The Plain Dealer • The Week • Kansas City Star • \u003c\/i\u003eSlate\u003ci\u003e • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking.”\u003cb\u003e—Junot Díaz, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reported like Watergate, written like \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations, \u003c\/i\u003eand handily the best international nonfiction in years.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”\u003cb\u003e—Judges’ Citation for the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[A] landmark book.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A triumph of a book.”\u003cb\u003e—Amartya Sen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.”\u003cb\u003e—Adrian Nicole LeBlanc\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[A] stunning piece of narrative nonfiction . . . 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