Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, is an incredible book by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine Boo. Although non-fiction, it reads like a novel and the story will captivate you. Boo spent years researching Annawadi, a Mumbai slum built up right next to the luxury resorts surrounding the airport. While India is experiencing massive economic growth and its rich and middle class are getting richer, it’s poor are still stuck in dire poverty and trying to find a way out.

This book is heartbreaking, captivating, intelligent, filled with humor and compassion; not one you will easily forget. Highly recommended read.