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Sunday, 13 October 2013

Sunday Sentence: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Posted on 04:00 by Harry
Sunday Sentence highlights the best sentence(s) I've read this past week, out of context and without commentary.

"Sunil thought that he, too, had a life. A bad life, certainly - the kind that could be ended as Kalu's had been and then forgotten, because it made no difference to the people who lived in the overcity. But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself."
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
Random House, 2012
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