There, Lakshmi is beaten and drugged into submission after she initially refuses to have sex with any of the customers, at which time she is forced to have sex with men in order to pay off the cost for which she has been purchased. When Lakshmi’s stepfather’s debts become too immense, he sells her as a sex slave, during which time Lakshmi is taken to an unnamed city in India, and sold to Mumtaz, the proprietor of Happiness House. Her mother is a devoted homemaker and her stepfather is a wasteful spender, preferring to use money to buy himself clothes, beer, and cigarettes instead of food for his family. Lakshmi lives with her mother and stepfather in a rural mountain village in Nepal. “Sold” is a young adult novel by Patricia McCormick and details 13-year-old Lakshmi’s experiences after being sold into sexual slavery by her stepfather.
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