Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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by Katherine Boo

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells 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 brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers