![]() But now the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. ![]() Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl living with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. The 2014 movie Sold by Oscar-winning director Jeffrey D. The novel is written in a series of short, vignette-style chapters, from the point of view of the main character. It tells the story of a girl from Nepal named Lakshmi, who is sold into sexual slavery in India. Sold is a novel by Patricia McCormick, published in 2006. ![]()
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