Sometimes a book just gets under your skin. This is one of those books for me. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is almost like a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction. Of course these are real people and a real world that Katherine Boo writes about – but she doesn’t report, she immerses us in the lives of the people of this slum. Her book reads like a novel. Boo’s own voice is unheard, she remains unseen, no mere reportage here. It is only in the afterward that she humbly describes how she went about writing this compelling book. I am inspired by just how many different ways there are to tell a story. Boo is certainly a master.