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1) First darling of the morning: selected memories of an Indian childhood

Author

Umrigar, Thrity N

Language

English

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This book is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu city; of a guilt-ridden stranger in her own land, an affluent...

2) Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

Author

Boo, Katherine

Series

Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption....