Summary Of Sold By Patricia Mccormick

Sold, was a young adult novel by Patricia McCormick, which revolved around a 13-year-old girl who got tricked into sexual slavery. The main character, Lakshmi, lived in a small village in the mountains of Nepal. Lakshmi lived with her stepfather and mother, her mother was a hard-working woman who did everything around the house, while her stepfather was an abusive man who used all the money the family gained for his own uses. Her stepfather always used the money to gamble, buy clothes, smoke cigarettes instead of using the money for the family. The stepfather's debts had become too much to handle, and he needed money, so he sent Lakshmi over to an unnamed city in Indian to become a “maid”. A woman very nicely dressed who went by the name of