In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.
Katherine Boo...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
Katherine BooI tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.
Katherine BooI've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.
Katherine BooIt 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 hadnโt hit you, the slumlord you hadnโt offended, the malaria you hadnโt caught.
Katherine Boo