Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo

And when she had real control over the slum, she could create problems in order to fix them—a profitable sequence she’d learned by studying the Corporator.

He might as well have said it aloud: Your concerns are so unimportant to me that I haven’t bothered to dress.

“We try so many things,” as one Annawadi girl put it, “but the world doesn’t move in our favor.”