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Title Castaway mountain : love and loss among the wastepickers of Mumbai / Saumya Roy.
Author Roy, Saumya, author.
Publication Info. New York : Astra House, a division of Astra Publishing House, [2021]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  954.792 ROY    Check Shelves
 Southeast  954.792 ROY    Check Shelves
 Southwest  954.792 ROY    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 259 pages : map ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254).
Summary "All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountain. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountain is covered in a faint mist, smog, or smoke from trash fires and flanked by a creek that runs out the Arabian Sea. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knockoffs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and ragpickers came to live at the mountain's edge, making a living by reusing, recycling, and reselling."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ragpickers -- India -- Mumbai -- Social conditions.
Ragpickers -- India -- Mumbai -- Economic conditions.
Poor -- India -- Mumbai.
Marginality, Social -- India -- Mumbai.
Plastic scrap -- Economic aspects -- India.
Refuse and refuse disposal -- India -- Mumbai.
Slums -- India -- Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Sanitary landfills -- India -- Mumbai.
Human ecology -- India.
Genre Creative nonfiction.
ISBN 9781662600951 (hardcover) : $28.00
166260095X (hardcover)