I have finished the first quarter of behind the beautiful forevers.
May I say that I personally applaud an author who decides to NOT capitalize a title.
I like it.
Didn't quite know what to expect.
The author, Katherine Boo, writes with the voice of Abdul, a teenager living in shanty-town-by-the-Mumbai-Airport Annawadi.
A garbage scavenger and seller.
But he doesn't know much of a different life that the one he's living. He does know that he wants better, but not certain what that is.
Taking a deep breath, reading about corruption. "...for the poor of the country, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained."
Putting the book down for a moment, looking at my home. At my life, my delightfully stable and fairy tale life. One family lives in a aluminum thrown together shack measuring 6' by 10'.
That's just slightly larger than the batter's box.
Or look at one of your 8' x 10' rugs, and subtract 2'.
Humbling.
The instinct for survival affects our moral baseline.
And I already know from where she took the title....
May I say that I personally applaud an author who decides to NOT capitalize a title.
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Didn't quite know what to expect.
The author, Katherine Boo, writes with the voice of Abdul, a teenager living in shanty-town-by-the-Mumbai-Airport Annawadi.
A garbage scavenger and seller.
But he doesn't know much of a different life that the one he's living. He does know that he wants better, but not certain what that is.
Taking a deep breath, reading about corruption. "...for the poor of the country, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained."
Putting the book down for a moment, looking at my home. At my life, my delightfully stable and fairy tale life. One family lives in a aluminum thrown together shack measuring 6' by 10'.
That's just slightly larger than the batter's box.
Or look at one of your 8' x 10' rugs, and subtract 2'.
Humbling.
The instinct for survival affects our moral baseline.
And I already know from where she took the title....
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