Based on three years of reporting, this book demonstrates how the best nonfiction can achieve the textured realism and subtlety of a powerful novel. Boo tells the interconnected stories of a handful of residents in a Mumbai slum near the newly renovated airport. They live in desperate poverty and squalor, but the characters are never simply presented as one-dimensional symbols of economic distress. By the end of the book, their struggles and aspirations are unforgettable.
