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02486aam a2200289 4500 001 051E2F78998C11E5B5D4B7C8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151203010109 008 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 020 $a 0679645500 ebook)\9780679645504 (ebook)\1400067553 (hbk : alk. paper)\9781400067558 (hbk : alk. paper 020 $a 9780679645504 ebook)\9780679645504 (ebook)\1400067553 (hbk : alk. paper)\9781400067558 (hbk : alk. paper 040 $a BRODART $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Boo, Katherine. 245 10 $a Behind the beautiful forevers $h [BOOK] / $c Katherine Boo. 246 3 $a life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. 250 $a 1st ed. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c 2012. 300 $a xxii, 256 p ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- The hole she called a window -- The come-apart -- The master -- A little wildness -- 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 20120822. 650 $a Urban poor $x Bombay. $x Bombay. 650 0 $a Poor $x Bombay (India.) 650 $a Creative nonfiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20151203015103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=051E2F78998C11E5B5D4B7C8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search