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It was hard to remember that this was non-fiction and not a novel. Katherine Boo's skill as a story teller had me hooked from cover to cover. I'll never look at my trash quite the same way again.
This was a good book to prepare me for a my upcoming trip to India. I feel like I have a better understanding of the corruption that keeps slum-dwellers in the slums despite India's rapid growth.
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This was a good book to prepare me for a my upcoming trip to India. I feel like I have a better understanding of the corruption that keeps slum-dwellers in the slums despite India's rapid growth.
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A mind-blowingly great book. It will pain you to read it, but you should read it anyway.
A great achievement in narrative journalism, empathic, insightful, always interesting and nuanced. I wish more non-fiction accounts could be told through real-life stories and not simply chronologies of politicians elected, laws enacted and wars fought. If you know of any others that are like this work, please do tell me. (I would say Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea is another such work I'd recommend.)
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This is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read. Katherine Boo tells a compelling story about today's India. It's an eye-opener when it comes to economic disparity--a book any American that doesn't worry about our trending into more and more disparity should read. It's also just a beautifully told story of a community--friendships, petty jealousies, alliances and betrayals. I was really sad to see it end.
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