The narrative tone and mood feels something like a Khaled Hosseini novel. This non-fiction story of life in the slums of mumbai is woven together with wonderful charaters, and a plot that I found riveting. There is such a close examination of the life of poverty and slums, that we can't escape t...
Rewind, see Abdul running backward, away from the station and the airport, toward home. See the flames engulfing a disabled woman in a pink-flowered tunic shrink to nothing but a match-book on the floor. See Fatima minutes earlier, dancing on crutches to a raucous love song, her delicate features...