Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Book 79: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

You know those books that are at once both incredibly good and terribly discouraging?



This is one of those. It's a nonfiction account of life in a slum in Mumbai. The people there show ingenuity to feed, clothe, and house themselves. But the corruption in institutions in India and among the non-profit foundations supposedly helping slum dwellers and orphans is so depressing.

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