sold

This week I started to read the book sold. Sold is by patricia mccormick. The book tells a stroy of a thirteen year old girl named Lakshmi. Lakshmi is from a desperately poor family in Nepal, where she lives with her younger sibling, mother and stepfather. Even though Lakshmi is poor, she aspires to do bigger things than what her home in nepal offers.

However one day, her world is changed. Her stedad intoduces her to a woman that offers her a job in india as a maid. Lakshmi takes the job obviously. She arrives at a place called "Happiness House", however she soon learns that she is not going to be working as a maid, but as a prostitute. She realizes that her family purposely sold her into prostitution and is forcing her to stay until she pays off the family debt. However, a woman named mumtaz cheats her and makes it so she can never leave the so-called "Happiness" House.

Lakshmi struggles to survive in Happiness House and depends on the support of other girls at the Happiness House. She remembers back to what her mother said "Simply to endure is to triumph”. Eventually the time comes for when she can risk her life for a chance to have a fresh start. Sold is an amazing book with a story that has never been told before in such detail.