*#10 on the ALA’s 2023 Most Banned and Challenged Book List
Monday, April 28
7:00–8:30 p.m. (see Hashavua for location)
Facilitated by Susan Walden
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape. Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives, but triumphs.