Join us for a discussion of The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 7 p.m. Featuring Julian Urrutia, Candidate for PhD in Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health and Cristina Garcia, PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures.

Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, and the Harvard Global Health Institute.

National Bestseller and winner of the 2014...

March 31, 2014
7:00 - 8:00pm

Join the Harvard Global Health Institute and the South Asia Institute for a discussion of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo.

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. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”

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