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The Branding on the Wall: Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers"
KATHERINE BOO'S BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS, set in a Mumbai slum, is a marvel of reporting, its triumphs legion. The characters are striking, vibrant, and dimensional, not at all the stereotyped, ghostly manifestations of ideas that too often plod through similar ...