Randi's Blog

This book was heart-wrenching, but beautifully told. A very important book. I haven’t read many verse novels, but I think the technique really lends itself to gritty, emotional stories like Sold. While I like the story and it is beautifully written, I can’t exactly say I enjoyed it, especially realizing that girls like Lakshmi are suffering these horrors right now around the world. However, that awareness strikes a chord and makes me want to take action, to speak out as Patricia McCormick has with this book.
Lakshmi’s emotions come through the brief lines, as do the concise descriptions of the things she notices or remembers (her homeland of Nepal, the people she watches outside in the streets, the different types of men she encounters), which is the most important part of this story; you feel for Lakshmi not only because you know what is happening to her, but because the language used to tell the story is very personal and intense.

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