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In this gripping non-fiction work by Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Documenting the lives of families in a slum shadowed by the Mumbai airport and luxury hotels, Boo pushes to the heart of an essential twenty-first-century question: Why don't more of our unequal societies implode? About the Author Katherine Boo His immersive, investigative reporting from within poor communities has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, a MacArthur 'Genius' grant, and a National Magazine Award. A writer for the New Yorker, and formerly for the Washington Post, she divides her time between the US and India. This book-her first-won the 2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction in the US, among many other awards, and has been translated into more than thirty languages.