Reddit reviews Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Winner of the National Book Award | The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award | The Los Angeles Times Book Prize | The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award | The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award
I've actually had really mixed feelings about child labor after reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers. The mixed feelings come because we get to feel all smug that something is made without child labor, but all that means is that they either starve or go work in trash piles / unregulated work where they are exposed to toxic materials or other issues that are every bit as dangerous.
As an English major in college, I've been inundated with fiction for years. Now I'm on a big non-fiction and essay kick.
At present I would recommend Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, a marvelous piece of literary non-fiction set in the slums of Mumbai, and a tidy selection of Foucault that I like to take chunks out of between other books.
Yeah, it's true. Nonfiction wasn't included in their list. How about:
Is Katherine Boo a [poor, Indian, slum-dweller] (http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Beautiful-Forevers-Mumbai-Undercity/dp/1400067553/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375289859&sr=8-1&keywords=katherine+boo)?
Is Emory Thomas a [confederate sympathizer] (http://www.amazon.com/Robert-E-Lee-A-Biography/dp/0393316319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375289595&sr=8-1&keywords=robert+e+lee+biography)?
Etc., etc.
It could be argued that to write about what you're faithfully familiar with is perhaps more detrimental to objective journalism or historical storytelling than what is foreign to you!
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Beautiful-Forevers-Mumbai-Undercity/dp/1400067553
This does not fit exactly, but in Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, the first time it is mentioned what the "Beautiful Forevers" are really paints a very vivid picture for me.