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Sold an amazing book by Patricia McCormick. Sold into prostitution by her step-father. Lakshmi is thirteen. She lives in small town Nepal, when sold by her gambler of a step father to pay his debt and to feed the family in the warding drought. At first Lakshmi thinks she is going to live as a maid in a big fancy house. Then the woman who bought her first whom she calls her auntie sells her to a man she calls 'Uncle husband' because he says she can pretend he's her uncle but if anyone asks to say he is her husband. Together he takes her across the boarder to India. In India he sells her to Mumtaz. She is a cruel woman who runs a whore house. At first Lakshmi refuses to give herself up to her new life and Mumtaz tries first to beat her and then decides the only way toget her to do what she wants is to drug her. She drugs Lakshmi in her tea and a man with 'fish lips' breaks her. In the end she says the only american words she knows "My name is Lakshmi. I am from Nepal. I am fourteen years old."