Katherine Boo

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012)

The narrative tone and mood feels something like a Khaled Hosseini novel. This non-fiction story of life in the slums of mumbai is woven together with wonderful charaters, and a plot that I found riveting. There is such a close examination of the life of poverty and slums, that we can't escape t...