Sold

Sold


By: Patricia McCormick
Reviewed by: Lynna, 16
Rating: It was amazing!


One word: Astounding.

Sold will open the eyes of readers everywhere that there's more beyond what meets the eyes in this world. Unlike other stories, this novel really makes you want to cry to think outside the box and might even inspire you to help out in the world. This novel was simply awe-spiring, eye-opening, and very well written. Although the author has not gone through such a horrible event, she has done a wonderful job maintaining the tone of the story so that it is very unique and genuine. I felt like I was reading and seeing through the eyes of the narrator. It was that good.

This novel is narrated by Lakshimi, who is a thirteen year old hard-working and poverty-stricken girl of Nepal. She finds the joy of living worth living, even though there were many hard times. Her mother loves her as much as her stepfather despises her. Thinking she would go to work as a maid in a wealthy city, she agrees to leave her family if she can send them her wages. Little did she know that her stepfather has sold her body to prostitution.

She goes through terrible things after this, trusting people she shouldn't have and others in which she should have but didn't. You'd have to read this book to actually feel emotionally attached as Lakshimi suffers event after event in trying to escape the brothel in India.

I finished this book in a day. I could not stop reading, wanting to know what happens next, simply attached. The author went through a lot of research, but I applaud her for her writing this book in her purpose to reveal the dark things that happen behind closed curtains.

I want to help, sooner or later in life, these innocent children. What they go through, it's horrible. You will feel such way too, when you can vividly witness it through the pages of Sold.

[This novel also is a National Book Award Finalist.]


Recommended to: Everyone who is up for real, troubling, and impowering books...