Castaway Mountain Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai

Saumya Roy

eBook - 2021

*One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"* "'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait."—Publishers Weekly "Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement."—Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss.All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, for...gotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains’ edge, making a living by re-using, recycling and re-selling. Among them is Farzana Ali Shaikh, a tall,... more