- Urban poor, New York Times bestseller, Creative nonfiction, Poor
The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Katherine Boo
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Portobello Books, Portobello Books Ltd (7 Jun 2012)
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846274510
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