A Walk Across the Sun

from olongbourn

trafficking of humans.... a serious, degrading practice that I am oblivious to in my little world, and, yet, it is there. You'd think we would be civilized to no longer sell humans. Whereas the oldest profession was once the only way the poor could put a roof over their heads and food in their st...

from DeltaQueen50

Opening with the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia in 2004, A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison is about two Indian sisters who survive the waters only to discover the rest of their family did not. At age 17 and 15, they decide to go to their school and put themselves under the care of the n...

from kiwifortyniner

This was an excellent first novel by Corban Addison that I became totally engrossed in. It tells of Sita and Ahalya sisters who are really close and and part of a loving family. But their world is torn apart when a tsunami strikes their village in India, and all their family dies. The sisters try...

from janismack

Interesting story about a lawyer doing pro bono work in India with an NGO that tries to stop child trafficking. There is a back story about his life with his Indian wife that develops along with him while he is looking ffor a specific child that was abducted.

from maryreinert

Even thought I am aware there is international sex trafficking, it seems remote and impersonal. This novel changes that. Through the experiences of two young women from India, the reader is led through a series of international horrors. Without repeating the plot, the author sheds light on the da...