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Synopsis
In Patricia McCormick's sorrowful and well-written young adult novel, the waking nightmare that young Nepalese girls experience after being sold into sexual slavery is told through the intelligent eyes of 13-year-old Lakshmi. Willingly taken from her loving home in the mountains of Nepal to be a lady's maid and provide for her impoverished family, Lakshmi soon discovers that her life will actually be one of prostitution, indentured servitude, and beatings. Though terribly cheated by the evil madam, Lakshmi keeps careful accounts of her earnings and makes friends with a little boy who teaches her Hindi and English. But will this be enough to keep her hope alive that she'll one day be able to return home? A 2006 National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature. A 2006 Publishers Weekly Book of the Year.
| Size | | Length: | 263 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "One more rainy season and our roof will be gone, says Ama."
Industry Reviews
"The author beautifully balances the harshness of brothel life with the poignant relationships among its residents...Readers will admire Lakshimi's grit and intelligence, and be grateful for a ray of hope for this memorable heroine at book's end."
(08/28/2006)
"McCormick provides readers who live in safety and under protection of the law with a vivid window into a harsh and cruel world--one most would prefer to pretend doesn't exist."
(09/01/2006)
"The brief chapter-like vignettes of detached sentences are richly resonant with images by turns luminous, haunting, and horrifying, and within them Lakshmi's story unfolds with grim immediacy...Readers can't help but be moved by Lakshmi's fate; she gives a powerful and heartbreakingly lyrical voice to the hope, the hopelessness, and most of all, the humanity of the victims of the sex slave trade."
(12/01/2006)
"An unforgettable account of sexual slavery as it exists now."
(09/15/2006)
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