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020    $a 1400067553 ((hbk : alk. paper))
020    $a 9781400067558 ((hbk : alk. paper))
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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.
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650    $a Urban poor $z Bombay. $z Bombay.
650  0 $a Creative nonfiction.
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