RM Book Lounge – Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

You really can’t make this stuff up.  In her first book, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine Boo writes about a Mumbai slum with an intensity and drama that you might find in a fiction book.  However, every scene in “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” is true, and Boo knows that because she lived it, spending three and a half years living in the slums, recording and documenting the lives of those living there.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

“…Ms. Boo is not a novelist. She is one of those rare, deep-digging journalists who can make truth surpass fiction, a documentarian with a superb sense of human drama.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“This is an astonishing book. It is astonishing on several levels: as a worm’s-eye view of the “undercity” of one of the world’s largest metropolises; as an intensely reported, deeply felt account of the lives, hopes and fears of people traditionally excluded from literate narratives; as a story that truly hasn’t been told before, at least not about India and not by a foreigner.” - Shashi Tharoor, Washington Post

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