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Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl who lives with her family in Nepal. She wants to help her family out financially by working as a maid in the city but she is sold into a life of prostitution by her stepfather. This is a fictional story but is based on interviews the author conducted with aid workers and survivors themselves.

This is a tough book to read but I highly recommend giving it a chance if you think you can handle the subject matter. It is written in a simple, almost poetic way and yet so much is conveyed. It's like not a single word was wasted. It's the type of book that will stay with me a long time as it is so haunting. Lakshmi might be a fictional character but she is the voice of countless victims and this is a book well worth reading.