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by Matthew Desmond
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsFrom Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America
by Orhan Pamuk
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsA modern epic of coming of age in a great city, a brilliant tableau of life among the newcomers who have changed the face of Istanbul over the past fifty years.
by Katherine Boo
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
by Mohsin Hamid
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy's quest for wealth and love.
by Thrity Umrigar
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsFilled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control. Umrigar illuminates how slowly we recover from unforgettable loss, how easily good intentions can turn evil, and how far a person will go to build a new world for ...
by Indra Sinha
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsProfane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People is the stunning tale of an unforgettable character: Animal, a young man whose back was twisted beyond repair in an industrial accident. It is a dark world, shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy.
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
by Terry Ryan
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsIntroduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay, and her 10 children fed and clothed, with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s.
by Rohinton Mistry
Published Nov 2001
Read Reviews"Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." - The Wall Street Journal.
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