Title: Behind the beautiful forevers
Description: 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.
Subjects: Urban poor, New York Times bestseller, Creative nonfiction, nyt:hardcover_political_books=2012-02-25, Poor, Slums, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Poverty, Social classes, Fattiga, Armut, NEW LIST 20120331, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, HISTORY, India, Economic history, Nonfiction, Sociology, Large type books, Poor, india, Mumbai (india), India, social conditions, New York Times reviewed, Description and travel
Places: India, Mumbai