Behind the Beautiful Forevers

She’d thought it through—had consumed two tubes of rat poison on two other days, but had started to vomit, which led her this time to mix the poison with milk.

自决弧钉死，plot 92。

A coward: Abdul said it of himself. He knew nothing about eluding policemen. What he knew about, mainly, was trash.

自我命名立人，cast 93。

She’d had to queue for four hours in order to see him, paying off guards and officers long before she’d gotten through the gates.

排队行贿推进，pace 90。

He took off running, then came back home. The only place he could think to hide was in his garbage.

短句刺痛，prose 94。

A kind of beachfront for a vast pool of sewage that marked the slum’s eastern border, the place was bedlam most nights

污水湖社交地图，world 95。

Midnight was closing in, the one-legged woman was grievously burned, and the Mumbai police were coming for Abdul and his father.

三线同开，hook 96。

How—to use Abdul’s formulation—do children intent on being ice become water?

报道升格伦理问题，innov 91。

If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight?

结构隐喻收束，ending 94。