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02368aam a2200325Ma 4500 001 547A6E8ACCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130604010126 008 130111s2013 meu ed 000 0deng 020 $a 1594136181 020 $a 9781594136184 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d UIB $d SILO 100 1 $a Boo, Katherine. 245 10 $a Behind the beautiful forevers : (BOOK CLUB COLLECTION - SIX WEEK LOAN) $b life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity / $c Katherine Boo. 246 3 $a BOOK CLUB COLLECTION: Behind the beautiful forevers 250 $a Large print ed. 260 $a Waterville, ME : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2013. 300 $a [421] p. (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a 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 "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter, Annawadi's "most-everything girl," will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy." But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. 650 0 $a Urban poor $z Mumbai. $z Mumbai. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Mumbai (India) $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 941 $a 4 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204063754.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110045721.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006071216.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418111214.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=547A6E8ACCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search