Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
This stunning book hurls you into Annawadi, a slum near Mumbai airport. It reads like a gripping novel, telling the intricate stories of a few residents. All have dreams. All struggle to survive. Several suffer a terrible end - suicide by self-immolation, brutal murder, agonisingly slow death from treatable illnesses. But these are not fictional characters - and they really did die like this.