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02470aam a2200289 4500 001 80CE251473E411E192D49BB46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120322010136 008 110513s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1400067553 ((hbk : alk. paper)) 020 $a 9781400067558 ((hbk : alk. paper)) 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d UPZ $d ZAD $d GO3 $d ZS3 $d MOF $d VP@ $d OBE $d BUR $d IEB $d CKE $d JRS $d BDX $d TXA $d CCE $d VHP $d BWX $d MFY $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Boo, Katherine. 245 1 $a Behind the beautiful forevers / $c Katherine Boo. 246 3 $a Behind the beautiful forevers : $b life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Random House, $c c2012. 300 $a xxii, 256 p. ; $c 25 cm. 505 0 $a Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field. 520 $a The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees fortune in the recyclable garbage of richer people. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a rural childhood, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to good times. But then, as the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.--From publisher description. 541 $d 20120301. 650 $a Urban poor $z Bombay. $z Bombay. 650 0 $a Creative nonfiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20131219024803.0 952 $l S3PA501 $d 20120404132232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=80CE251473E411E192D49BB46AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search