Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo • 2012
Devastation Rating
poverty India inequality journalism
Our Take
Boo spent three years inside a Mumbai slum beside the airport, recording lives shaped entirely by systems designed for their failure. Her prose is ferocious and tender in the same breath. The people here are not symbols of poverty — they are furiously individual humans crushed by forces they can name but cannot escape. A monument to what journalism can be.
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