YA review: Sold by Patricia McCormick
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Lakschmi, a 13 year-old-girl, lives in a quiet mountain village. The family barely gets by, and she dreams of a way to help the family earn more money to buy a tin roof for their cottage or more food for the table. When an exotic stranger comes into the village to take her away, she thinks she'll be working as a maid to a rich family in a city and that the money she makes will be sent home to help her family. However, she keeps going farther and farther away... and ends up in a large city in India working as a sex slave. She doesn't know how to escape, how to stop the abuses, or how to get back home. McCormick's chilling fictional tale is based on real life events; an author's note in the back gives more details about the sexual exploitation of children in India that will shock most people (it certainly did me). The book's content is graphic in parts-- an innocent girl suddenly becomes a sex slave and she's trying to adjust and understand the horrors-- but the story didn't feel heavy-handed as McCormick leads the reader through Lakshmi's struggle for survival. An important book to raise awareness about abuses that are rampant in some parts of the world.
Lakschmi, a 13 year-old-girl, lives in a quiet mountain village. The family barely gets by, and she dreams of a way to help the family earn more money to buy a tin roof for their cottage or more food for the table. When an exotic stranger comes into the village to take her away, she thinks she'll be working as a maid to a rich family in a city and that the money she makes will be sent home to help her family. However, she keeps going farther and farther away... and ends up in a large city in India working as a sex slave. She doesn't know how to escape, how to stop the abuses, or how to get back home. McCormick's chilling fictional tale is based on real life events; an author's note in the back gives more details about the sexual exploitation of children in India that will shock most people (it certainly did me). The book's content is graphic in parts-- an innocent girl suddenly becomes a sex slave and she's trying to adjust and understand the horrors-- but the story didn't feel heavy-handed as McCormick leads the reader through Lakshmi's struggle for survival. An important book to raise awareness about abuses that are rampant in some parts of the world.
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