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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo • 2012

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
India poverty Mumbai corruption
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Our Take

Boo spent three years in Annawadi, a slum in the shadow of the Mumbai airport, following families whose lives are determined by proximity to wealth they cannot access. The corruption is total and granular. Asha's pragmatic ascent is the most honest characterization of survival capitalism.

Appears In

► Deportation and Borders — The Violence of the Line ► Homelessness and Displacement — The World That Passes By ► Homelessness and Poverty — What the Margins Look Like From Inside ► Famine and Hunger — The Politics of Who Eats

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