Katherine Boo
Journalist
1964-08-12
Quotes by Katherine Boo
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Zehrunisa didn't know Abdul's age herself. Seventeen was what she'd said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn't keep track of a child's years when you were fighting daily to keep him from starving, as she and many other Annawadi mothers had been doing when their teenagers were young.
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She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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Zehrunisa didn't know Abdul's age herself. Seventeen was what she'd said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn't keep track of a child's years when you were fighting daily to keep him from starving, as she and many other Annawadi mothers had been doing when their teenagers were young.
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She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.
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