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Alternating lyrical imagery with precise detail, McCormick gives voice to the terror and
bewilderment of a young girl robbed of her childhood but who finds the strength to triumph.  Â
          --National Book Award Finalist citation Hard-hitting ... poignant. The
author beautifully balances the harshness of brothel life with the poignant relationships among its
residents. --Publishers Weekly - starred review An unforgettable account of sexual slavery as it
exists now.  --Booklist - starred reviewThe writing is breathtaking in both its simplicity and
attention to detail ...  stunning ... this novel is not to be missed --VOYA McCormick's research
for this novel involved interviewing women in Nepal and India, and her depth of detail makes the
characters believable and their misery palpable. This important book was written in their honor. --
School Library Journal Read more Q:Â What inspired you to tell this story? Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
 A: In the past few years , the trafficking of children has gotten a good deal of media attention.Â
But more than five years ago, when I had a chance meeting with a photographer who was working
undercover to document the presence of young girls in brothels overseas, I knew immediately that
I wanted to do what no one else had done so far:Â tell this heartbreaking story from the point of
view of one individual girl. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I believe that young adults want to know
what's happening to their peers on the other side of the world, but that media accounts, by their
very nature, cannot usually go beyond the surface. To me, there is nothing more powerful- or
permanent- than the impact of a book. Â Q:Â What did your travel to India and Nepal bring to
your story? Â A: I spent a month in India and Nepal tracing Lakshmi's steps- going from a poor,
isolated village in the foothills of the Himalayas all the way to the teeming red-light district of
Calcutta. Trained as an investigative reporter, I took notes and photos observing the sights,
smells, foods, sounds, and the customs- details to give the book authenticity. I also interviewed
women in the red-light district, girls who had been rescued, and a man who had sold his girlfriend
in exchange for a motorcycle. It helped that I was a foreigner in the busy streets of Kathmandu
and Calcutta, because I was as bewildered and awestruck by these places as Lakshmi is in the
novel. Â Q:Â What were the challenges of bringing Lakshmi's story to life? Â A: Perhaps the
biggest challenge was not to let the sadness of the situation overwhelm me. When I first came
home from India, I fell into a despair unlike anything I'd ever felt before- something I now
understand was a delayed reaction to the suffering I'd witnessed. Moreover, I felt inadequate to
the task of doing justice to the stories the women had entrusted to me. But when I thought about

the young girls who might be recruited to take their places as the women became ill or died, wha