Her keen eye makes this tiny slice of Mumbai crackle with life and longing.
The book reminded me of another powerful portrait of Mumbai's underbelly: Suketu Mehta's "Maximum City."īut where Mehta captivates his readers by taking us along on a whirlwind ride through the sprawling, risky, kaleidoscopic city that symbolizes the Indian dream for far too many doomed dreamers, Faleiro - who grew up in India and now lives in San Francisco - chooses to pinpoint her focus: one street, one profession. Sonia Faleiro's "Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars" is an excellent, painstaking and often painful investigation of Mumbai's seedier nightclubs. By Sonia Faleiro (Black Cat 225 pages $15)
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