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Sold by Patricia McCormick
5.0
Little warning, this book was quite heavy and contains many triggers so please inform yourself before you read this. So first off I know this isn’t my usual genre but I found this one randomly and just wanted to read it and I do not regret it. Let me tell you this book made me feel all kinds of emotions. I laughed, I bawled my eyes out from the very first 20 pages and I got pissed, a lot. This book was heartbreaking but so so good.
It spoke of a young girl forced into prostitution at the age of 13, while thinking she was going to be working as a maid for a rich family, but instead, she got shipped into a whole other country where she was basically enslaved as a sex slave. The story evolves around the girl, Lakshmi trying to get out of there and getting back to her family in the mountains, but she can’t seem to be able to do so and so we see her losing herself but getting back up each time. We go through the story through her eyes and her emotions, which also made the book very simple, but compete at the same time.
But what made the book so easy to read and so enticing is the length of the chapters, they were extremely short, the paragraphs and sentences were also very short and spaced which made the reading fast and easy to follow. I loved the representation of the Indian culture, it made the story so much more of a reality than a work of fiction which gives the book more impact on the reader. I learned of so many customs from mostly Nepal, but also India and their way of life.
I’m also very aware that the author is white and writing a black culture novel, but I did find that the author went to Nepal and there she interviewed women to write this book properly. I also decided to pick this book up because it gives me another perspective since the book was written by a white author.
It spoke of a young girl forced into prostitution at the age of 13, while thinking she was going to be working as a maid for a rich family, but instead, she got shipped into a whole other country where she was basically enslaved as a sex slave. The story evolves around the girl, Lakshmi trying to get out of there and getting back to her family in the mountains, but she can’t seem to be able to do so and so we see her losing herself but getting back up each time. We go through the story through her eyes and her emotions, which also made the book very simple, but compete at the same time.
But what made the book so easy to read and so enticing is the length of the chapters, they were extremely short, the paragraphs and sentences were also very short and spaced which made the reading fast and easy to follow. I loved the representation of the Indian culture, it made the story so much more of a reality than a work of fiction which gives the book more impact on the reader. I learned of so many customs from mostly Nepal, but also India and their way of life.
I’m also very aware that the author is white and writing a black culture novel, but I did find that the author went to Nepal and there she interviewed women to write this book properly. I also decided to pick this book up because it gives me another perspective since the book was written by a white author.