RECOMMENDED BY LOGAN E.
Can you imagine being pushed into a foreign and hopeful story filled to the brim with betrayal, abuse, hunger, the overwhelming sense of salvation, and, above all the overwhelming prospect of being sold? Sold is a tear-jerking book about Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl from a devastated village in the mountains of Nepal, whom is greedily sold by her family to a brothel (prostitution house) in India. Lakshmi is tricked into thinking she will work as a maid, but quickly she realizes the harsh realities of prostitution. Lakshmi also learns to push away realities, fear, and disease, to be able to look towards her only hope. Sold would be a perfect book for those with a need to stand up, and for those who are blessed enough to hope, dream, cry freely, and need a wakeup call to the treacherous yet true stories of many girls around the world being forced into being a prostitute slave.
