Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

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

Katherine Boo with Sunil Malhotra (Narrator)

8 hours, 16 minutes first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
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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 thi...

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3.96
based on 9,636 reviews

Moods

informative: 66%

sad: 66%

emotional: 64%

challenging: 48%

dark: 46%

reflective: 43%

tense: 22%

inspiring: 12%

hopeful: 11%

adventurous: 10%

funny: 3%


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68% of readers chose medium
18% of readers chose slow
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