SCOTT October Book Club

October’s Book- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo

Genre: Biography, Creative Non Fiction

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a 2012 non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo that chronicles the lives of residents in Annawadi, a slum near the Mumbai airport. The book uses immersive reporting to explore themes of poverty, inequality, corruption, and resilience in modern India, following the interconnected stories of families striving for a better life amidst global change and local struggles. It received widespread critical acclaim and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2012.

FUTURE READS:

November: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
December: The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller