| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 256 pages) |
| Contents |
Prologue: between roses -- Undercitizens. Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning. Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- A little wildness. Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out. Nine nights of dance -- Something shining á -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field. |
| Summary |
Annawadi is a settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are filled with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees a fortune beyond counting in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. |
| Audience |
1030 Lexile. |
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1030L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 14 156642 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 7.8 14 156642 |
| Summary |
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions. |
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The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees fortune in the recyclable garbage of richer people. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a rural childhood, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to good times. But then, as the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.--From publisher description. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Creative nonfiction. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Subject |
Urban poor -- India -- Mumbai.
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Economic history. |
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Urban poor. |
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Urban poor -- India -- Bombay. |
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Nonfiction. |
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History. |
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Sociology. |
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Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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India -- Mumbai. |
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Bombay (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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e-book [online only] OverDrive.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boo, Katherine. Behind the beautiful forevers New York : Random House, c2012 9781400067558 (DLC) 2011019555 (OCoLC)693809650 |
| ISBN |
9780679643951 : $51.00 |
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0679643958 : $51.00 |
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