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Hyperion, 2006 accelerated readerrenaissance learning thirteenyearold 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. She lives in new york with two children, a husband and two cats. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Lakshmi is a thirteenyearold girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in nepal. Sold tells the tragic, yet hopeful story of a year old girl sold into prostitution to pay off the debts of her family. Patricia mccormick books list of books by patricia mccormick.
See all books authored by patricia mccormick, including sold, and i am malala. The first edition of the novel was published in september 1st 2006, and was written by patricia mccormick. Jul 10, 2010 to research sold, patricia mccormick traveled to india and nepal where she interviewed the women of calcuttas redlight district and girls who have been rescued from the sex trade. Looking for a free ebook for sold by patricia mccormick. In sold, lakshmi has a hard life on a mountaintop in nepalher familys rice paddy is at the mercy of the weather, and her stepfather gambles away what little money they have. Patricia holds a masters degree in creative writing, and has contributed regularly to the new york times. I know situations like this happen all around the world and this is sickening. Innocently thinking that she will be working as a maid for a rich family, thus providing money for her family in order for them to have a tin roof and better. Mccormick uses language both lyrical and spare to lead the reader into this deeply troubled and troubling world this is a story of courage, which is precisely what it takes to plant ones literary work in unfamiliar soil. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sold. Sold by patricia mccormick, read by justine eyre by audiofile magazine published on 20111t16.
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