And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. In this 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 in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.Īs India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times “A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”-Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Just as important, she makes us care.”- People shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE.
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