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

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

Katherine Boo with Sunil Malhotra

8 hours • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement i...

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Moods

informative 66%
emotional 63%
sad 63%
challenging 52%
reflective 44%
dark 43%
tense 23%
inspiring 13%
adventurous 12%
hopeful 10%
funny 3%

Pace

medium 66%
slow 18%
fast 14%

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3.96

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