Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014Copyright date: �2012Edition: 2014 Random House Trade paperback editionDescription: xxii, 256 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780812979329
- 081297932X
- 305.5/690954792 23
- HV4140.M86 B66 2014
- National Book Award for nonfiction, 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | F BOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 901571 |
Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- Ghost house -- The hole she called a window -- The come-apart -- The master -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
1030L Lexile
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 14 156642.
National Book Award for nonfiction, 2012
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