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See the full Behind the Beautiful Forevers reading order for all books in the series.

About Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012) is a narrative nonfiction account of three years spent in Annawadi, a slum adjacent to Mumbai's international airport, following residents through the events of 2007–2011. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the National Book Award for Nonfiction, it is one of the defining works of contemporary narrative journalism about global poverty.

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