Sold - Patricia McCormick

This was a wonderful novel, with rich evocative prose. Lakshmi is our thirteen year old narrator and it is through her eyes we see the move from her home village to the big city. The novel takes from Nepal to India, from the loving, although devastated, hills to the cruel environment of the sex industry. The title is haunting once you've read it I think and you realise that Lakshmi is just a commodity for people to get by. Sold on several times and never to be released from the clutches of Mumtaz in the brothel that she eventually ends up in, her life is dismal and beyond comprehension. The vignettes allow you to step into the mind of a young child, changing ...  Read the complete review