After finishing Half the Sky yesterday, I picked up this book written by Patricia McCormick because it tells the story of one girl's nightmare as she is sold into sex slavery. It complements what I learned in Half the Sky because it is a fictional, personal account based on the author's interviews of girls in brothels in Nepal and India.
This book is beautifully written in almost vignette-like verse, deeply contrasting the horrifying turmoil of the young narrator's life. It does a wonderful job of forcing the reader to acknowledge a world we try to pretend does not exist in today's world. But it does. And it's important to open our eyes to the atrocities that are so real to so many young women and girls. Although Sold is a young adult book, it needs to make its way into adult literary circles as well.
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