Sold - Jo

Patricia McCormicks book Sold, is about thirteen year old Lakshmi. Lakshmi grows up is mountain village in Nepal, where she lives lives with her loving mother, step father and baby brother. One day her father told her that she is to be sent to the city to work as a maid. Without knowing Lakshmi is sold into sex trafficking. She is sold to a place India called, The Happiness House. Lakshmi is then forced become a prostitute to pay off the debt that she owes to Mumtaz, who cheats Lakshmi out of her earnings. Through the book Lakshmi befriends another girl named Shahanna. Together they form a friendship filled with trust and the hope of escaping Happiness House. Later in the book, their was a police raid, they captured Shahanna. Lakshmi lost the friend she depended on and her hope to get out. A month after Shahanna was taken, a American came to The Happiness House. He offered to help Lakshmi escape, she as worried that is Mumtaz would find out and wip her so hard, that she would be on the break of death. She accepts his card and has faith that see him again. Lakshmi survives and makes it out of The Happiness House.

The main connection I would make is that sex trafficking in a huge production in which young girls from Nepal are going to India to be forced into prostitution. They are tricked into leaving there homes, and are tricked into thinking that they are sending money to their families, the majority of them are pour. Just like Lakshmi's family, she thought that the money she earned would go to her family, so she could pay off the debt. I would recommend this book to someone who like reading about intense, and difficult subjects totals about. Also to someone who is interested in human rights.