The next meeting of Bernardsville Public
Library’s book discussion group, Memoirs and Coffee, will be held on Tuesday,
October 23 at 10:30 am in the library’s Community Room. Pat Kennedy-Grant, Readers’ Services Manager
for the library, will lead the discussion of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity” (2012) by Katherine Boo. [The author
will not be present.]
In "Behind the Beautiful
Forevers," which is based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a
bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight
into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change,
the book carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first
century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote of
the book, “[An] exquisitely accomplished first book. Novelists dream of
defining characters this swiftly and beautifully, but Ms. Boo is not a
novelist. She is one of those rare, deep-digging journalists who can make truth
surpass fiction, a documentarian with a superb sense of human drama. She makes
it very easy to forget that this book is the work of a reporter. …. Comparison
to Dickens is not unwarranted.”
Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a
former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her reporting
has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine
Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time
between the United States and India. This is her first book.
There is no charge and no sign-up
is needed to join the discussion. Call
the library at 766-0118 for more information.
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