The Road of Lost InnocenceBy: Somaly Mam
Reviewed by: Lynna, 17
Rating: It was amazing!
The Road of Lost Innocence was an amazingly inspiring book by Somaly Mam. She talks about her horrible past in which she went through brothel slavery. She talks about losing her "innocence" without ever wanting to at a very young age and having to deal with it over and over again for many years. This book was written with pain, tears, and struggles as the author has to overcome her dark history to share to the world of the awful experiences in brothels.
Upon reading this book, I was in disbelief that these things can happen to such a young girl. To top off my disbelief, this was all real. It all seemed too terrible, too unfortunate to be true - but yet these are the words and thoughts of the author herself, who accounts her past in a strikingly accurate way on each page.
Somaly Mam was a Phnong, which is a group of villagers on the hills of Cambodia, and now lives to tell her nightmare of tales in France and Cambodia. She's a huge activist in saving the thousands of girls from sex slavery and was named Glamour Woman of the Year in 2006. This book was very inspiring to me and made me create a gateway charity website. However this book wasn't the ONLY initiation to my site, as many other books and experiences/accounts have also inspired me to create a website for Cambodian charity.
Recommended to: People who want to open their eyes a little bit more to the world
3 comments:
Sounds really sad, but really interesting. You might like Autobiography of a Geisha, which I'm reading right now, by Sayo Masuda. The girl is a hot-springs geisha (they were basically prostitutes, unlike other geishas) and it's heartbreaking, but fascinating. It make the feminist in me very, very angry.
Cool I'll check it out sometime! lol Yeah the feminist in me gets pretty upset too.
And way to go with the website! Activism!
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