![]() The slum is home to 3,000 people (crammed into 335 huts) and unknown numbers of goats, feral pigs, and water buffalo. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is the product of Boo’s three and a half years of reporting (with the help of translators) in Annawadi. Although profane bargaining was the norm in the waste business, he felt his mother acceded to that norm with too much relish.”Ībdul and Zehrunisa are two of a handful of Annawadians whose fortunes Boo follows closely in the book. In Abdul’s view, her “one great flaw” is “the language she used when haggling. He works with his mother, Zehrunisa, who haggles with the waste-pickers. ![]() Abdul buys recyclables that the neighborhood’s waste-pickers have scavenged and then resells it in bulk to local recycling plants. ![]()
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