Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo.
Katherine Boo follows families seeking a better life in Annawadi, a settlement near Mumbai's airport and luxury hotels. Close reporting brings global inequality into view through the particular ambitions and pressures of daily life.
Read it for the difference between describing poverty as a condition and understanding people who live within it. The book asks how opportunity is recognized, pursued and obstructed at the level of an individual life.
Cover shown: paperback, ISBN 9780812979329. Barnes & Noble offers the hardcover, ISBN 9781400067558; Apple Books and Kobo offer the ebook, ISBN 9780679643951. The Amazon audio option is the unabridged recording narrated by Sunil Malhotra, approximately 8 hours 16 minutes.
