Summary of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers follows the lives and aspirations of residents of Annawadi, one of Mumbaiâs many densely inhabited slums. Boo, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, spent three years visiting and researching Annawadi, which was located near the Mumbai airport but hidden from travelersâ view by a wall advertising Italian floor tiles that purportedly stayed âbeautiful forever.ââŚ