Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

• Positive but depressing
• Reminded some of “Slumdog Millionaire”
• Makes you appreciate what you have
• Contrast between the hotel and slums interesting
• Kept forgetting it wasn’t fiction
• Better to support local, rather than global, charities
• Characters were survivors
• Amazing how people carve out niches for themselves
• Lots of suicides
• Animals and children are helpless