Katherine Boo made her name as an investigative Washington Post reporter writing long-term stories on poverty in the United States, researched with agonising care and told with exquisite detail and sensitivity to the real people whose lives she was sharing with the newspaper-reading public. Her latest work, and first book, takes those skills to Annawadi, a downtrodden Mumbai neighbourhood near the city's airport. It is a shocking, sometimes inspiring, unforgettable portrait of a part of India foreigners rarely see.
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