Friday, Sept. 16, 2016--Kastraki (Meteora), Greece
This book is a bit unusual for me. It's not a novel, but it reads
like a novel. It is a true story of people living in a slum in Mumbai
written by an American woman who went there to live among them and write
about their lives. Like so many other books about India I have read,
it is quite depressing because of the circumstances of their lives with
things often getting worse rather than better. The book is Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo, and it won the National Book Award for non-fiction.
Even though I didn't like what was happening in the book, it was well
written and well documented. It's an extraordinary achievement. I gave
it 4 out of 4 stars.
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