Lead Review

• Book: Behind The Beautiful Forevers
• Location: Mumbai (Bombay)
• Author: Katherine Boo

“I couldn’t put “Behind the Beautiful Forevers “down even when I wanted to–when the misery, abuse and filth that Boo so elegantly and understatedly describes became almost overwhelming. Her book, situated in a slum on the edge of Mumbai’s international airport, is one of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I’ve ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of “The Wire, ” this would be it.”
–Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickel and Dimed

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