Katherine Boo Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: b. August 12, 1964
Birthday: August 12
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents and catastrophes they dodged. A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught.
source: Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.13, Portobello Books
topic: People, Malaria, Fortune, Decent Life
