Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
2012 / 257 pages (Kindle)
non-fiction – contemporary India
rating:  9.5

Harrowing tale of life of Muslim immigrants to an impoverished and basically Hindu slum area of Mumbai – near a very modern airport and hotels.   The family at the center of this novel is not the poorest of the poor – in fact they are  >>>>MORE >>>>