First-sentence Quote by Katherine Boo

“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to…

— Katherine Boo

“The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road…

— Katherine Boo

“For years, Asha had hoped that her daughter wouldn’t guess about the men. Now she wished she had raised Manju to be worldly enough…

— Katherine Boo

“What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted…

— Katherine Boo

I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were…

— Katherine Boo

One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way…

— Katherine Boo

“that the only Indians who went on trial were”

— Katherine Boo

“Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and…

— Katherine Boo

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who…

— Katherine Boo

“No onlooker asked, Why fix a house when the airport authority might demolish it? Almost everyone here improved his hut when he was able,…

— Katherine Boo

Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity,…

— Katherine Boo

“Like most scavengers, Sunil knew how he appeared to the people who frequented the airport: shoeless, unclean, pathetic. By winter’s end, he had defended…

— Katherine Boo