Barnes & NobleBehind the Beautiful Forevers- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER, 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 make shift 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.