Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction | 2012 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Katherine Boo spent three years embedded in Annawadi, a Mumbai slum adjacent to luxury hotels near the international airport. Her immersive narrative follows residents trying to survive and rise in a system riddled with corruption and indifference. The book won the National Book Award, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the NBCC.
About the Author
Katherine Boo is an American journalist and author known for her long-form narrative journalism about poverty in America and India. She studied political science at Barnard College and worked for many years at The Washington Post, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000 for her reporting on the neglect and abuse of the mentally retarded in group homes. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012) followed the lives of residents of Annawadi, a Mumbai slum beside the international airport. Read more →
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