While traveling, Lakshmi sees a world she never comprehended when she was living on her mountaintop in Nepal. Money is exchanged between the stepfather and Auntie Bimla, and the two women set out on their journey.
As a result of their poverty her stepfather tells Lakshmi that she will go work in the city-and he arranges for a relative stranger (Auntie Bimla) to take her there. The rains wash all the rice away, which means that Lakshmi and her family are hungrier and poorer than ever. Lakshmi has hopes and dreams for her future: she wants to continue to be the number one girl in her class at school, and she wants to earn money as a maid in the city like her friend Gita so her family won't be so poor.īut disaster strikes. She has a goat, Tali, a baby brother (no name), a mother (Ama) whom she loves dearly, and a stepfather whom she thinks is a good-for-nothing waste of space because he does no work and gambles all the time. Lakshmi has lived twelve of her years in a small village on a mountaintop in Nepal. A slightly longer version can fill in some of these gaps: What is missing from this super-short version: how and why it happens, and the effects of human trafficking on one individual. (Except the escape part doesn't always happen in real life.) The story line of Sold is far too common in the world: girl grows up in rural society, girl gets manipulated into the human trafficking industry by someone she knows, girl ends up in a brothel in another country where she is exploited until she escapes.
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