Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Sex trafficking takes place all over the world. Here's a site that helps people identify victims of human trafficking.
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One of the major purposes of the novel is to incite its readers to react and do something about the global problem of human trafficking.
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Originally McCormick didn't want her main character to work in a brothel, but she eventually decided that avoiding brothel work was unrealistic.
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Lakshmi is not a real person—instead she is a compilation of many people's experiences that McCormick discovered during her research for the novel.
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