Katherine Boo wrote Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. This book is non-fiction. Katherine lived near the slum for several years and she writes about the real people living in a slum by an airport and a sewage pond. My favorite guy was Abdul, the trash picker who tries to support his family. He sorts plastic and metal and sells it to recyclers. He is doing his best to be honest and true and to stay out of trouble. Poor Abdul, through no fault of his own, ends up in big trouble but yet he continues to be a young teen with integrity. I don't know where Abdul gets it from because there isn't a whole lot of integrity to be found in the slums of Mumbai near the airport. Sad yet beautiful, this is a book worth your time to read.
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