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One of those books that gets better with a re-read. There is so much here.Old Review:So wow. Using the micro chasm of a few families in an Indian slum, Boo looks at how economic forces control lives for removed for the big CEO. The thing I found most interesting is that while there is no real moral ...
How India's cripplingly poor people live.I hadn't realised, when I first started reading, that this was a non-fiction book, and I'm so glad that someone pointed this out to me. Knowing that it was true and all the crazy characters were not just a figment of the author's imagination, made it a much m...
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...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, india, nonfiction, published-2012, journalism, pulitzer, radio-4, fradio, environmental-issues, epic-proportions, lifestyles-deathstyles, medical-eew, mumbai, newtome-author, plague-disease, politics, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy, tragedy, trains-planes-automobiles, true-gri...
This is much scarier than any STEPHEN KING novel. I KEPT ON ASKING HOW THIS COULD NOT BE FICTION. I knew that Mumbai was impoverished, in the past. Yet , I read about the growing middle and professional classes. I saw specials on TV, which showed beautiful new apartment complexes. According to Boo's...
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