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Sold is a contemporary YA novel by American writer Patricia McCormick, published in Written in short vignettes, Sold tells the story of thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, a poor but happy girl living with her family in a mountain hut in Nepal. 9 rows ·  · To research Sold, Patricia McCormick traveled to India and Nepal, where she interviewed the Brand: Patricia McCormick. Sold, by Patricia McCormick, is about a young girl that faces the horrors of human trafficking. Lakshmi, a year old girl from Nepal is sold by her step-father to go live in a brothel. I know situations like this happen all around the world and this is sickening. What kind of parent would sell their young daughter for sex just for some money?/5(K).

You win, Patricia McCormick—you win. This is literary magic at work. In Sold, Lakshmi has a hard life on a mountaintop in Nepal—her family's rice paddy is at the mercy of the weather, and her stepfather gambles away what little money they have. For the family to survive, her stepfather tells Lakshmi that she is going to the city to work as. Sold Chapter 2. By Patricia McCormick. Previous Next. Chapter 2. Before Gita Left. Lakshmi remembers playing with her friend Gita before Gita went to work as a maid for a wealthy woman in the city. One of Lakshmi's memories includes that of Krishna, a "boy with sleepy cat eyes, the one I am promised to in marriage" (bltadwin.ruGita.3). The novel Sold by Patricia McCormick is about a young woman named Lakshmi forced into sex slavery. She wanted to leave for a labor job but instead was brought into a house by a woman named Mumtaz. Unaware of what would happen to her in this place, she was eager to begin working.

Sold is the story of Lakshmi, a girl from a small village living with her Ama, baby brother and stepfather. Her stepfather sells her for money to pay gambling debts, and she is brought to the city, only to find out that there is no maid job waiting for her. She has been sold into prostitution. This story was hard to read. To research Sold, Patricia McCormick traveled to India and Nepal, where she interviewed the. Sold is a contemporary YA novel by American writer Patricia McCormick, published in Written in short vignettes, Sold tells the story of thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, a poor but happy girl living with her family in a mountain hut in Nepal. When a Himalayan monsoon washes away her family's crops, Lakshmi must find a job to support her family. On the advice of a stranger, she goes to India to stay at a 'Happiness House', but once there finds she has been tricked, and sold into prostitution.