Hi everyone!
Due to Easter holidays, our next book club discussion will be Sunday April 13, and we'll be sharing perspectives on "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity" by Katherine Boo.
Here's a Book Summary:
From
Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative
nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of
families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first
century’s great, unequal cities.
Annawadi
is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the
Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric
with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees
“a fortune beyond counting“ in the recyclable garbage that richer people
throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a
childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the
middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive,
beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl“—will soon become
its first female college graduate.
Please join us on Sunday April 13 at 2pm, in the Financial District of San Francisco at the Station SF coffee shop.
Next Books to Read:
May: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
June: Mayada, Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson
