![]() The 269-page novel, which was a finalist for the US National Book Award 2006, depicts the tragic life of women and girls in rural Nepal where a cruel combination of illiteracy, poverty, superstition and backwardness force them to survive in very tough circumstances.įlipping through the pages of Sold, I was reminded of Sandra Cisneros, the Latino author of The House on Mango Street. The characters are thinly veiled real life people. The result was a heart-wrenching story of a girl, mired in poverty, sold into prostitution in an Indian brothel. The story of Lakshmi, a girl in the village of Goldhunga, narrated in first person, is deceptively simple yet very poignant.Ī graduate of journalism from Columbia University, Patricia embarked on a research of Nepali girls' trafficking into India (some estimate says 12,000 of them are trafficked to India every year), through a grant by New York Foundation for Arts. In Sold, American author Patricia McCormick's coming-of-age novel, the harsh reality of life in a mountain village in Nepal is presented in stark vignettes. ![]() ![]() This appeared in The Kathmandu Post today: ![]()
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