A review by ddillon154
A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian

5.0

This book is wonderfully written and powerfully evocative. It's fiction, but reads like a documentary shining a light on the unseen human costs of development. Set in Bangalore, this could just as easily have been set in any number of postcolonial cities where the rush and fervor to develop comes at the cost of the most marginal denizens who almost invariably get pushed out.