Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIMESTEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.People A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.Judges, PEN

But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirement—especially when a pretty

stolen sports cars

and responsibility

In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life

and the lives of those close to them

and Hanya Yanagihara

a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

she doesn’t want to be the one to do it

she's a female-serial-killer expert who's quick with a deflection joke and terrible at getting personal

leaping between the towers

Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment