Katherine Boo

Friday, January 9, 2015, 7:30 p.m.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo

In this brilliant, 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.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)

Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers)

Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. This is her first book. (añadidos desde Random House)… (más)

Mac's Book Club will discuss Behind the Beautiful Forevers By Katherine Boo on Wednesday, August 20th at 7:30 p.m.

“Reported like Watergate, written like Great Expectations, and handily the best international nonfiction in years.”—New York

In this brilliant, 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.

As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.

Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. This is her first book. Winner of The National Book Award | The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award | The Los Angeles Times Book Prize | The American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Literature | The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award

Location: Street: 1820 Coventry Rd Additional: City: Cleveland Heights, Province: Ohio Postal Code: 44118 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Diesel Readers back to the store to discuss Behind the Beautiful Forevers By Katherine Boo on Monday, July 21st at 7pm.Surrounding Mumbai’s airport are the luxury hotels and upscale boutiques that are the result of India’s new prosperity. And yet out of sight, walled off by billboards that proclaim “Beautiful Forever,” there is another world entirely: the slums of Annawadi, whose inhabitants too are electrified by the miraculous economic boom. Among them are Abdul, an enterprising teenager sees a “fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away; Asha, who dreams of becoming Annawadi’s slum lord; and Kalu, a young thief. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy, terror and global recession rock the city, and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As individual hopes intersect with global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.

This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)

The store's book club meets to discuss Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

The club is open to all, and members are invited to attend either the Sunday (11am) or Monday (4pm) meeting.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)

The store book club meets to discuss Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

The book club is open to all, and members are invited to attend either the Sunday (11am) or Monday (4pm) meetings.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)