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Synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
| Size | | Length: | 264 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 15.2 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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