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Her book reads like a novel, but the characters are real. Over the course of her time in Annawadi, Boo learned about the residents' social distinctions, their struggles to escape poverty, and conflicts that sometimes threw them into the clutches of corrupt government officials. Rats commonly bite sleeping children, and barely a handful of the 3,000 residents have the security of full-time employment. Some inhabitants lack any shelter and sleep outside. Residents of the slum - which is located next to the Mumbai airport and in the shadow of several luxury hotels - live in devastating poverty. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years in Mumbai's Annawadi slum to do research for her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers. On Wednesday, Katherine Boo won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Behind the Beautiful Forevers. This interview was originally broadcast on Feb.

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